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Army & Navy Laundry hanging out to dry at Hanapepe, Kauai Hawaii, nicknamed “Fort Corregidor” - October 1942
LIFE Magazine Archives - Joe Scherschel Photographer

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WW2 Homefront.
American shipyard war-workers take their lunch-break against the background of a poster exorting them to greater production efforts.
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US Army Corporal Paul F. Janesk posing in his jeep in Sicily, Italy, 3 Sep 1943. (US Army Signal Corps).
Corporal PAUL FRANCIS JANESKI, son of Walter J Janeski and Mary Domineski, was born on July 5, 1917. He survived the war and died on March 8, 2004.

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Now that's a bunch of WWII pictures I've never seen and you won't see often.......surrender in mass of Japanese forces on their home islands showing them surrendering their swords too. AMAZING PHOTOS, THANKS for posting them!!! More Please!
 
22 year-old Shirley Slade was one of about 1,100 chosen for a group of all female pilots, called the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during WWII.

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Survivors from USS Blue DD-387, HMAS Canberra (D33), and possibly other Allied Warships are brought to Sydney Australia after their ships were lost off of Guadalcanal - 1942
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is visible in one of the pictures
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Strock Photographer

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Harold Alvis O’Dell at about 29 yrs of age at Ft. Wayne, Ind for training before going to New York then shipping out to England for D-Day. He was a Section Forman on the MK&T railroad in Oklahoma before joining the army. In the army he was a member of the 729th Railway Operating Battalion Company A. The battalion was nicknamed the “Soxos”. They restored and operated over 600 miles of railway in England prior to D-Day. After the invasion they operated the railways in France and all the way through the war to Germany.

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SFC Lavone Durant and CPL Marvel Joos.
The U.S. Army Military Police Corps Regimental Museum, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri,received a collection of artifacts and archival materials from a former female soldier who served as an MP at the St. Louis Union Station from 9 February 1945-1946.
Marvel L. Reid (nee Joos), originally from North Dakota, entered the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on 18 February 1943 in Fort Des Moines, IA. After completing her WAAC basic training, she remained at Fort Des Moines as a shipping and receiving checker until she sought reassignment in early 1945, which led to her service as an MP in St. Louis.
The WAAC formally became a part of the U.S. Army in July of 1943 as the Women's Army Corps (WAC); Cpl. Joos entered Army service on 1 September 1943. She was discharged as a staff sergeant on 3 June 1946.

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*American *airfield in the Aleutians, September 1943.
*Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina *and *Lockheed Ventura PV-1 *twin-engine patrol bombers in blue scheme both carrying both the mid-1943 style national insignia.

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