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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Corporal Paul Wenger, instrument repair man with a mobile unit. Corporal Wenger is thirty-one years old, a former grocery store clerk in Atkins, Arkansas. He learned instrument repair at Chanute Field

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Corporal Paul Wenge...

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. Professor. Arthur Klein, sixty-three years old, a member of the choir for thirty-one years, is professor of mechanical engineering at Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. Professor. Arthur Klein, sixty...

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Two men looking at a piece of paper in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Two men looking at a piece of paper in a factory. Office of War Inform...

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

Where two Catholic sisters died in Nazi bombing raid on Algiers. Two Catholic sisters were praying before this crucifix in a convent in Algiers when German dive-bombers almost demolished the building, killing them and thirteen other nuns. The fifteen sisters killed and three who were severely wounded, remained in the convent at prayers when the raid started while other sisters guided sixty orphans from the building to the safety of an air raid shelter. Mother Superior Marie Duval, who had lived at the convent for thirty-one years, was among the victims. She was awarded the French Legion of Honor posthumously by General Henri Honore Giraud, civil and military commander-in-chief of French North and West Africa, whose citation said, in part: "On April 17, 1943, she was a victim of German barbarism, as were fourteen of her sisters." This picture was radiophotoed from North Africa to the United States

Where two Catholic sisters died in Nazi bombing raid on Algiers. Two C...

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Algiers convent where fifteen nuns were killed by Nazi bombs. When German dive bombers raided the North African port of Algiers on April 17, fifteen Catholic sisters perished at their prayers as the bombs demolished this convent-orphanage. The fifteen who died and three sisters who were severely wounded remained behind to pray when the raid started while other nuns led sixty orphans from the building to the safety of an air raid shelter. Among the victims was Mother Superior Marie Duval, who had been at the convent for thirty-one years. General Henri Honore Giraud, civil and military commander-in-chief of French North and West Africa, awarded Mother Duval the French Legion of Honor posthumously, stating: "On April 17, 1943, she was a victim of German barbarism, as were fourteen of her sisters." This picture was radiophotoed from North Africa to the United States

Algiers convent where fifteen nuns were killed by Nazi bombs. When Ger...

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