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- Corporal Packy MacFarland, Mary Stern, and Charles A. Murphy performing a radio segment from the lobby of the USO club in Anniston, Alabama.
- 1942-1945 circa
- MacFarland and Stern were members of the Radio Guild. Murphy was the assistant director of the club. The segment was broadcast over WHMA.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Alabama serviceman Hammett, who was injured during World War II.
- 1945 circa
- Hammett is standing, with crutches, on the steps outside a building; his foot is in a cast. He is probably a patient at Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Alabama serviceman Huling, who was injured during World War II.
- 1945 circa
- Huling is reading a book in a hospital bed. He is probably a patient at Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Alabama serviceman Beasley, a patient at Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1945 circa
- Beasley is holding a cane.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Alabama serviceman Spikes, who was injured during World War II.
- 1945 circa
- Spikes is probably a patient at Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Alabama serviceman Turner, who was injured during World War II.
- 1945 circa
- Turner is seated on a hospital bed. He is probably a patient at Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Staff Sergeant Leonard Ozley of Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1945 circa
- "'We had been in combat two months in France when they let half of us go back for a rest and for the first entertainment we had had since before D-Day. It was a USO show with only four in the cast, but don't think it didn't mean everything to us....
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Private George Glenn of Holly Pond, Alabama.
- 1945 circa
- "There were two Southern girls in the USO musical Infantryman Pfc. George Glenn, Holly Pond, Ala., saw when he was a patient in the 25th General Hospital in the Pacific. 'They made New Guinea seem like home,' he said. Wounded in Luzon January 25,...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Lieutenant Dan C. Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1945 circa
- "'...Best entertainment we had.' That's the opinion Lt. Dan C. Johnson, of Birmingham, now at Northington General Hospital, holds of the USO shows he saw during his 14 months in Europe as a fighter pilot with the 9th Air Force. 'The fellows really...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Alabama serviceman Miller, who was injured during World War II.
- 1945 circa
- Miller is seated on a hospital bed, holding a pair of crutches. He is probably a patient at Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Sergeant John Y. Udaka of Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1945 circa
- "Sgt. John Y. Udaka, of Birmingham, American born Japanese, has been in service three and a half years, six months of which have been spent in France and Italy, fighting with the 92nd Division. He is now a patient at Northington General Hospital....
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Captain Herbert M. Vines of Bessemer, Alabama.
- 1945 circa
- "A battery commander with the 5th Army in Italy, Capt. Herbert M. Vines, of Bessemer, now at Northington General Hospital, lost his left leg in the battle of Cassino. 'I heard the shell coming and dove under a truck. And, of course, that's where it...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Lt. Homer B. Pou, Northington General Hospital patient from Tuscaloosa, Ala., is shown with his first pay check since February 1944 - a check for $6,459!"
- 1945 circa
- "'Back at our air base in England those USO units were really entertaining,' said Pou. 'Despite air raids, the show always went on.' Pou, first pilot on a B-17, was shot down March 8, 1944, by German fighters on the second large Berlin raid. Two of...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Private Joe Horton of Florence, Alabama.
- 1945
- "A 19-year-old Florence, Ala., serviceman, Pvt. Joe Horton, who was wounded during the fierce fighting on Okinawa, is shown in his bunk aboard a U.S. hospital ship heading for a Marianas port. Pvt. Horton was a member of the Army's 77th Infantry...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Master Sergeant Samuel Whitehead of Rogersville, Alabama.
- 1945 circa
- "'They were swell.' That's what a bronze-star wearer from Northington General Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Ala., said about a couple of USO shows he got to see at the front lines in Italy. With those three words he also praised the motion pictures, games...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Congressional Medal of Honor winner Henry E. Erwin speaking into a microphone, probably during a radio broadcast from Northington Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1945
- Erwin, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, saved the crew of the bomber, "The City of Los Angeles, " by throwing a burning phosphoresce smoke bomb out a window of the plane.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Three photographs of wounded veterans from Northington General Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1943
- Top left: Nurses pushing three wounded veterans in wheelchairs, on their way to the USO club in Tuscaloosa; one of the men is from Greensboro, Alabama. Top right: Young women and wounded veterans eating a meal at the USO club in Tuscaloosa. Bottom:...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Two wounded veterans recovering at Northington General Hospital."
- 1945 circa
- "Tuscaloosa, Alabama - Cpl. William Garrett (left), Union City, Tenn., and Pfc. Rayphard Barrett, Lynn, Ala., are shown in one of the ward 'bull sessions' at Northington General Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 'While in the hospital overseas and...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- "Directors of the National War Fund in meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City pledged continuous effort in behalf of America's armed forces and their fighting allies until 'the last G.I. is home.'"
- 1943-1944 circa
- Left to right: W. A. Steadman, Birmingham, Alabama; John J. Tigert, Gainesville, Florida; and Thomas Kennedy (secretary-treasurer of United Mine Workers), Hazelton, Pennsylvania.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- William and Susan Minter of Dallas County, Alabama.
- This drawing, based on a photograph, was made by the Minters' granddaughter, Clara Weaver Parrish. William T. Minter served as a colonel in the Second Seminole War. Though he was not in the military during the Civil War, he died in the Battle of...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection