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YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The soldier-mechanics who serve as guard crews in the Army Air Forces are skilled men. A staff sergeant and a master sergeant caliper a screw that wil be used to fasten a plate on a gas tank

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The soldier-mecha...

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YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The enormous size of the landing wheels of a YB-17 bomber can be appreciated when compared with the sizes of the two men inspecting the landing gear. The men, a staff sergeant and a technical sergeant, belong to a bombardment squadron at Langley Field, Virginia

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The enormous size...

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Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A staff sergeant of a bombardment squadron serves as radio operator on a huge YB-17 bomber. He is reporting to his home base at Langley Field, Virginia

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A staff sergeant ...

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Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A staff sergeant and two corporals of a bombardment squadron stationed at Langley Field, Virginia thrash out a technical problem that arose during the servicing of the mighty YB-17 bomber that towers above them

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A staff sergeant ...

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Chinese-Americans get officer rank. Camp Barkeley, Texas, The first Chinese-Americans to be commissioned second lieutenants in the Medical Administrative Corps Officer Candidate School have received their bars at this Army center. The men are Calvin S. Chin, 28, of New York City, and Anthony Loo Wung Wong, 25 of Honolulu, Hawaii. Lieutenants Chin and Wong are now members of the Medical Department Officer's Replacement Pool at Camp Barkeley. Lieutenant Chin, native New Yorker, is the son of Me On Chin 35 Pell Street. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York and was in the restaurant business before entering the Army. Serving first as an enlisted man, Chin next became Staff Sergeant assigned to a Medical Battalion at Camp Youn, California. Lieutenant Wong came from Hawaii to the United States for part of his education, and graduated from St. Louis College, Missouri, in 1934. Returning to Honolulu, he graduated from the Cannon School of Business and went to work for the Hawaiian Electric Company. Before entering the Officer Candidate School, Wong served in the Hawaiian National Guard

Chinese-Americans get officer rank. Camp Barkeley, Texas, The first Ch...

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Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. This staff sergeant of the armored forces teaches young soldiers some of the fine points of mechanized warfare at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He gives Uncle Sam a mighty good value for his ninety-six dollars monthly base pay

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. This staff sergeant of the armored fo...

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A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Office of War Informat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The enormous size of the landing wheels of a YB-17 bomber can be appreciated when compared with the sizes of the two men inspecting the landing gear. The men, a staff sergeant and a technical sergeant, belong to a bombardment squadron at Langley Field, Virginia

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The enormous size...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Left to right: Private Asser Llomaki of Mason, New Hampshire; Staff Sergeant D.E. Horton of Painted Post, New York; Staff Sergeant C.L. Hoopman of Ionia, Michagan working on the tail of a B-17 Flying Fortress at a replacement center somewhere in England. The bomber was damaged in raids over occupied France and Germany

Left to right: Private Asser Llomaki of Mason, New Hampshire; Staff Se...

Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ab... More

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Office of War Informat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A captain, a lieutenant-colonel and a staff sergeant of the armored forces discuss tactical problems during war games at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where soldiers in training are learning the most up-to-date methods of fighting a mechanized war

Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A captain, a lieutenant-colonel an...

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Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. This staff sergeant of the armored forces teaches young soldiers some of the fine points of mechanized warfare at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He gives Uncle Sam a mighty good value for his ninety-six dollars monthly base pay

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. This staff sergeant of the armored fo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A captain, a lieutenant-colonel and a staff sergeant of the armored forces discuss tactical problems during war games at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where soldiers in training are learning the most up-to-date methods of fighting a mechanized war

Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A captain, a lieutenant-colonel an...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Staff Sergeant C.A. Jones, an instrument repairman, working on an aircraft clock. Sergeant Jones comes from Lloyd, Florida

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Staff Serge...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The soldier-mechanics who serve as guard crews in the Army Air Forces are skilled men. A staff sergeant and a master sergeant caliper a screw that wil be used to fasten a plate on a gas tank

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The soldier-mecha...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Staff Sergeant C.A. Jones, an instrument repair man, working on an aircraft clock. Sergeant Jones comes from Lloyd, Florida

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Staff Serge...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More