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Civilian protection. The armbands represent coffee cups, but coffee isn't the only thing which the Emergency Food and Housing Corps will provide when they are needed. Members of this corps are trained to organize emergency feeding and housing facilities, and their mobile units can be set up rapidly near the scene of a disaster

Civilian protection. The armbands represent coffee cups, but coffee is...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Civilian protection. These auxiliary firemen will play an important part in our civilian defense in the event of air raids on American cities. Here they are going out on a practice "emergency call." The truck is a regular fire department hose wagon, painted battleship gray to reduce visibility and equipped with blackout headlights. The Maltese crosses on the men's armbands is the insignia of the auxiliary fire forces

Civilian protection. These auxiliary firemen will play an important pa...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. No time to spare before treating this patient, so these members of the emergency medical aid corps (see armbands insignia) go to work on a bombing victim right in the ambulance. The young lady is operating an inhalator to keep the victim breathing, while the doctor (note the M.D. next to his medical insignia) sets a broken arm in splints

Civilian protection. No time to spare before treating this patient, so...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description