Japanese propaganda flier depicting President Franklin D. Roosevelt standing on a cliff, holding an American soldier out in front of three large guns that are shooting bullets. It includes the following caption: "Valiant Americans--This hurts me...
The flier promises soldiers that if they surrender, they will once again be able to enjoy "pleasant memories" such as the "unforgettable embrace under the beautiful moon with the warmth of her shapely body nestled against yours." The following...
Morton served as a Gunner's Mate Third Class in the Pacific Theater. This scrapbook documents his time in San Diego after he first enlisted; the time in Alabama when he was home on leave; and his year and a half in Australia. Subjects documented in...
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.
"'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....
"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,...
"'...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...