Original Caption: "A contingent of 15 nurses,...arrive in the southwest Pacific area, received their first batch of home mail at their station." 268th Station Hospital, Australia. Three of the nurses are Lts. Prudence L. Burns, Inez Holmes, and Birdie E. Brown, 11/29/1943 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier:111-SC-370740 From:Series: Signal Corps Photographs of American Military Activity, compiled 1754 - 1954 Created By:Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) Production Date:11/29/1943 Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=531410 Repository: NARA's Still Picture Records Section, National Archives at College Park (College Park, MD) Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted

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In 1944, the 767th Tank Battalion supported the US 7th Infantry Division during two campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO). This battalion was the first unit to employ the M10 Tank…

What flight attendant uniforms say about airline brand identity, cultural attitudes, and passenger psychology

Part 15 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II

Lot 4102-5: America at War: U.S. Navy PT Boats. A U.S. Navy PT boat, escorting an American aircraft carrier on a mission in the Southwest Pacific runs a criss-cross course around the big ship in a constant search for enemy submarines. Collection of the Office of War Information, 1946. (7/24/2015).

[Photo] B-25 Mitchell bomber of the 405th Bomb Squadron “Green Dragons” employing the skip-bombing technique against enemy shipping, southwest Pacific, 1944-45.

[Photo] Men of the US First Marines Division at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, circa late Dec 1943; note jeep being used to haul supplies

One of the few remaining "no frills" World War II Army kitchen cars, this Medical Department version is a rarity, and its Postwar conversion into a guard car with cupola makes it even more unique.Built by American Car & Foundry Co., St.Charles, MO; 1942 To feed personnel on wartime troop and h