The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Friday, April 1, 2016

Shorpy Home Front Photos: A Variety

JUNE 11, 2014--  DEAR FOLKS: 1943--  July 1943.  "Greenville, South Carolina.  Air Service Command.  Writing a letter home.  Jack Delano, OWI.

JUNE 9, 2014--  HOT BOX: 1943--  1943.  "Melbourne, Australia.  U.S. Army hospital.  Patient receiving treatment in the new fever machine which keeps temperature at 107 degrees (108 degrees is fatal).  Note ice in the basin to cool the man's head."  Jo Fallon, OWI.

JUNE 27, 2014--  TAVERN ON THE GREEN: 1944--  January 5, 1944.  "Tavern on the Green, Central park, NYC.  Christmas exterior."  Arthur Schleifer, client.

--GreGen

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