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The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang book(Army Signal Corps Photo, NARA, SC 320897) Carrying a full equipment, American assault troops move onto Utah Beach on the northern coast of France. Landing craft, in the background, jams the harbor. 6 June 1944. Public Domain.Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookMen of a U.S. 9th Air Force ordnance section built this baby tank from German, French, and American Parts. The four-ton vehicle creeps behind hedgerows, dives into craters, or does an about-face with equal ease. (U.S. Air Force Number 54524ac, NARA).Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookUS Soldiers in Panama. (Photo courtesy of Lynne Attardi, eBay acquisition).Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookA V-1 falls onto London. This one made it through air defenses in daylight. Public Domain.Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookThe U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) returns to San Francisco, on 12 December 1942, following the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12-13 November 1942. She was en route to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. (Public Domain).Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookSailors play pickup games of baseball in the ballfield area on Mog Mog. (U.S. Navy photo, NAID 80-G-408207).Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookSam Snead in his Navy uniform. (Photo courtesy of Lynne Attardi)
Other famous players who enlisted during this time were: Hogan, Bog Jones, Horton Smith (Army Air Corps); Lloyd Mangrum, Ed “Porky” Oliver, Jim Turnesa (Army); Jimmy Demaret, Jack Fleck, Sam Snead (Navy).
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The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookUS 44th Infantry Division troops fighting at Mannheim, Germany in 1945. (Public Domain).Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookA GI machine gun team (2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry) with an M1919 Browning against the Nazis army in the streets of Aachen, Germany, 15 October 1944. (Public Domain).Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookSeabees of the 111th Naval Construction Battalion unloading a Rhino Ferry on a Normandy beach, June 6, 1944. (NARA).Watch Slides from my book
The WWII Chain Letter GangJust to whet your appetite, photos from The WWII Chain Letter Gang bookDental examiners in the field (NCP 1608), National Museum of Health and Medicine (Public Domain).