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Snapshot from the rear of a crowd looking towards Hollywood film actress and pin-up girl Betty Grable (wearing dark dress, standing near microphone facing away from camera) presenting a trophy to the Reception Center baseball team 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.
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.
"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.
One of the most used German machine gun in WWII. The barrel change took about 7.5 seconds. That`s all the allies had to get up and go.
There were a ton of old buildings left on the old airbase in Wendover, and unfortunately, I can't remember what most of them were. Lol
Official U.S. Navy glass recognition training slide of a U.S. Army Air Forces Curtiss SB2C Helldiver carrier-based dive bomber airplane, taken during World War II (Slide No. M 170) [Slide produced by: Three Dimension Company, Chicago, Illinois].
From U.S. Navy Recognition Training Slides, WWII 143, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of an unidentified woman wearing a fur coat and a headscarf, walking down a icy road in the snow around the time of World War II [believed to be in Morganton, N.C.]. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
World War II planes in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, some time in the 1940s during the second World War. Photo probably by Jack Cravens. If you are interested at all in the Alaska/Aleutian Islands front of the war, read more details about my grandfather's WWII experience. Please do NOT publish these photos online or in print or on a slide show or video without my written permission.
A WWII Veteran exercises his right to protest. Strobist info: Canon 580EXII with shoot-through umbrella camera left; YN560 camera right, behind subject for rim.
See more of his story at jasondietrich.zenfolio.com/blog/2012/8/a-wwii-veteran-exe...
Interesting vintage embroidery stitched by a man in the Coast Guard for his wife during WWII. Saw this in an antique shop in Connecticut while visiting the Sea Music Festival in Mystic.
Shop info: Boat House Antiques, 145c Water Street, Stonington, CT 06378.
Official U.S. Navy glass recognition training slide of a U.S. Army Air Forces Curtiss P-40 Warhawk single-seat fighter airplane, taken on June 25, 1943 (Slide No. M 579B) [Slide produced by: Three Dimension Company, Chicago, Illinois].
From U.S. Navy Recognition Training Slides, WWII 143, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Used as a basic combat trainer for pilots throughout WW II nicknamed the pilot maker. Seen in hangar 79 at the Pacific Aviation Museum Ford Island Pearl Harbor Oahu Hawaii.
Official U.S. Army photograph of an unidentified U.S. Army searchlight battalion covered encampment at an unidentified location in North Carolina during maneuvers in World War II [believed to be in Burgaw, N.C.] (undated).
From William L. Flournoy Sr. Papers, WWII 109, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., wearing a bikini, sitting in a row boat on an unidentified body of water [either in North Carolina or Baltimore, Maryland] during World War II [printed in 1944].
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Inscription on a WWII Japanese cannon on Managaha island in Saipan. Can you translate? Notice the Japan Navy's emblem in the center.
Snapshot of three friends sitting or leaning against the metal railing of a bridge over a river at an unidentified location around the time of World War II. Pictured are (left to right): a woman nicknamed Bet [probably for Betty]; a young man named Jimmie; and a young woman named Mary Jo. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew the three, and collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Photograph captioned in scrapbook on the page labeled “Memories of a Wonderful Sunday !!” [with a drawing of a bottle labeled “White Lightning Mountain Corn Distilleries”]: “Bet-Jim-Mary Jo” (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-...
I made this on PMG. It isn't a real rifle, but i made it to be a WWI/WWII able rifle. It is based off the Karabiner 98k, the M1 Garand, and the Mosin Nagant 91/30. There are 4 different versions. From top to bottom: Standard. Sniper. Trench Warfare. Weapon System Map. The rifle uses 7.62x54r mm bullets. It has a 5rnd attached mag. I think this is really cool. Plz Comment
There is a WWII Japanese spotter's overlook for their 140 mm cannons on the high cliffs of Naftan Peninsula in Saiapn. The overlook had an iron roof. An American bomb hit the spotter's overlook blowing the iron roof off the side of the cliff into the jungle far below where I found it upside down.
Submarine Museum, Groton, Connecticut. Model of a WWII fleet submarine.
I have a certain affinity for this class of submarine, since I served on the USS Picuda (SS-382) which was launched in 1943 and served in the Pacific ocean. It was the oldest commissioned sub in the US Navy when I was aboard it. It was decommissioned in 1972 and given to Spain as part of a deal that got the US a new lease on the Navy base in Rota.
Official U.S. Navy glass recognition training slide of a German Luftwaffe Heinkel HE 280 turbojet-powered fighter airplane, taken on July 1, 1944 (Slide No. M 3285) [Slide produced by: Three Dimension Company, Chicago, Illinois].
From U.S. Navy Recognition Training Slides, WWII 143, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
US Marine in Pacific battle uniform at Bovignton Tankfest 2010.
Had a nice chat to this guy, who told me about meeting Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.
Snapshot of a U.S. Army soldier named Clint from Morganton, N.C., with a wooden clothespin in his mouth, hanging his boxer shorts on the clothes line in-between the barrack buildings outside at Camp Gordon, Georgia, in September 1942 during World War II. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew him, and collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Taylor wrote on the front of the image “Clint and His Drawers,” and drew marks in a circle around his boxers on the clothes line (September 1942).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.