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A WWII vessel rises out of the water during falling river levels. The vessel, a WWII minesweeper, was a museum ship in St. Louis and swept away during the flood of 1993 and usually remains underwater year-round.
It's made out of paper and very flimsy. I had some trouble with ripping. This is going to be used for a WWII themed AC moc ounce it is done. Inspiration: www.flickr.com/photos/90760161@N04/8445244137/in/photostream
The color will also be changed to dark tan if I can find some broadcloth. If anybody knows where to find some, Please Tell Me!
The backpack fits through a hole in the back of the cloak.
Comments and Criticism Welcome.
Modeling an authentic WWII WAC Uniform. More about my retro/historical photography: vintagereveries.com/series/carondelet-historical-society-...
Modeling an authentic WWII WAC Uniform. More about my retro/historical photography: vintagereveries.com/series/carondelet-historical-society-...
A historical reenactor dons the uniform of a WWII American Airborne Soldier during a reenactment at the Dade Historical Battlefield
Postcard of the interior of a U.S. Army company day room—with chairs, books, and periodicals available for the soldiers—at Camp Butner, NC, during World War II [1940s] [Postcard by: W. R. Thompson and Company, Richmond, Virginia; Photograph from official U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph].
From Camp Butner Picture Postcards, WWII 214, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of an unidentified bomb-damaged streetscape in an unidentified city [believed to be Ostend] in Belgium during World War II. Photograph taken or collected by William L. Flournoy while he was stationed in Belgium with the 280th Port Company, U.S. Army (undated).
From William L. Flournoy Sr. Papers, WWII 109, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Evidence of WWII is everywhere in Saipan. Here are the ruins of the Japanese power plant for their As Lito airfield. You can see a Japanese tank out the door. See more:
saipanpictures.blogspot.com/2008/07/isley-field-is-one-of...
My video documenting the surviving WWII ordnance in the jungle of Naftan Peninsula in Saipan. In the last year-and-a-half of WWII this area was used to store massive amounts of bombs and ordnance of all types for the constant bombing of Japan. The American military was also stockpiling ammunition here for the expected invasion of the Japanese homeland. When the war ended the American military tried to dispose of the remaining ordnance but, with hundreds of thousands of bombs, many were left behind. This was 90 seconds of clips from the video. You can see the rest of this video on YouTube here:
www.youtube.com/user/SaipanPictures#p/u/0/pUqAX4qPYc4
or near the bottom of this Blogspot page:
Cropped photograph of two unidentified U.S. Army Air Forces servicemen working in a mess hall for the 5th Bomb Group (Heavy), making and baking pies on Morotai Island, Indonesia, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Photograph taken or collected by Capt. Ferd L. Davis of Zebulon, N.C., while he served in the 394th Bomber Squadron, 5th Bomb Group (Heavy), during the war (undated).
From Ferd L. Davis Papers, WWII 191, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Photograph of a U.S. Army soldier named Conrad Williams, wearing his full Army uniform and hat, walking down the sidewalk of an unidentified downtown during World War II. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew him, and took or collected this photograph while she was living in Morganton or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Photograph captioned in scrapbook: “Conrad Williams” (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Modeling an authentic WWII WAC Uniform. More about my retro/historical photography: vintagereveries.com/series/carondelet-historical-society-...
There are thousands of American WWII beer bottles on the jungle floor. This one was made one month prior to the Battle of Saipan. It would have been put on a supply ship in 1944 and followed the war over the Pacific. The American soldiers in the battle certainly never saw a beer but the hundred thousand American soldiers stationed here for two years after the battle were given a ration of six beers a week. They brought their rations into the hills and left the bottles right where they were drank, and they are still there!
Snapshot of Hollywood film actress and pin-up girl Betty Grable (wearing dark dress), posing sitting on an artillery gun with the Reception Center baseball team cheering around her at the Fort Bragg Reception Center in 1942. She was at Fort Bragg, N.C., filming a documentary called Betty Grable at Army Camp. Photograph taken by William L. Flournoy while he was stationed at
Fort Bragg for U.S. Army service during World War II (1942).
From William L. Flournoy Sr. Papers, WWII 109, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
WWII Japanese Val dive-bomber pictured at Carman, Manitoba. This aircraft was recovered from an abandoned WWII jungle airstrip in the Gilbert Islands of the South Pacific in 1968 by Bob Diemert.
Photo via Diemert to Blake Smith collection.
Please no publication requests or re-posting to websites.
"Locomotive shot up by the RAF in the station at Baccarat Feb/45" From the photo album of Alwyn Rattray.
Back of envelope from letter postmarked on May 31, 1945, by Geraldine Mayo to her fiance David L. Beveridge, who was serving in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve during WWII. Mayo used Morse Code to write a love or personal message on the back the envelope to Beveridge. Beveridge wrote out the English letters for the coded message above Mayo's Morse Code.
From Geraldine M. Beveridge Papers, WWII 188, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.