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Washington, D.C. Sailor taking a picture of his girlfriend at a monument in front of the Capitol on a Sunday afternoonThe Mystery of the Photo: Was this WWII Couple Staging a Picture for the War Effort?Dec 12, 20121943. On maneuvers in wartime Washington. "A soldier and a woman in a park, with the Old [Russell] Senate Office Building behind them." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency, photographer unknown. Office of War Information.A Moment Frozen in Time: A Soldier and a Woman in a Park in 1943Oct 2, 2012Buddy LewisRemembering Buddy Lewis: A Washington Senator and WWII VeteranSep 20, 2012B-29 Superfortress in flight (Wikipedia)Three Things You Didn’t Know About National AirportJun 4, 2012Walter Spangenberg, captain in the Woodrow Wilson High School Cadet Corps at the school's Regimental Ball during WWII - October 1943 (Shorpy)The Life and Times of Walter Spangenberg, Washingtonian and Naval AviatorJun 1, 2012Uncle Sam writes beneath the slogan It’s Your America on a 1940 census poster.1940 Census: D.C. Was Bigger Than Today, Housed A “Hobo Jungle Camp”May 4, 2012President Roosevelt's "Date Which Will Live in Infamy" speechWhat the Washington Post Said the Morning of Pearl HarborApr 26, 2012Sailor of woman at the Tomb of the Unknown Solder in 1943 (Library of Congress)Unnamed Sailor and Girlfriend Visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in 1943Apr 18, 2012Winston Churchill’s Speech in Washington in 1941Mar 14, 2012
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