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The very last cigarette. When a trainload of American wounded goes through Issoudun, the workers from the American Red Cross canteen go to the station and supply the men with coffee and chocolate, sandwiches, and cigarettes

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Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas. As an NYA trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes. As an National Youth Administration (NYA) trainee, Elmer gets practical experience at the Corpus Christi naval air base in Texas. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Naval Air Base, Texas

As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Naval Air Base, Texas

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Navy planes must be mechanically perfect. Lloyd H. Brooknole (left), an experience sheet metal worker, repairs and assembles planes at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. A helper, Elmer J. Pace, is getting practical experience working with Brooknole. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A man and a woman working on a motorcycle. Office of War Information Photograph

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. Training for Victory. These National Youth Administration (NYA) trainees at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, are preparing for jobs as airplane mechanics. After eight weeks' apprenticeship they will be employed by civil service to recondition Navy planes at the base

A black and white photo of a group of women. Office of War Information Photograph

Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas. As an NYA trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

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12002-18.

Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

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01/01/1939
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