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Continuance of National Service Life Insurance
Source: “Continuance of National Service Life Insurance – Insurance Form 1535.” Veteran”™s Administration, June 1944.
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Liberty Ship Juliette Low Christened by First Scout
Source: “Liberty Ship Juliette Low Christened by First Scout.” The Standard-Star, 12 June 1944, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-star/138090491/
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Entertainers Travel Rough and Perilous Circuit Taking USO-Camp Shows To Remote Fighting Fronts
Source: “Entertainers Travel Rough and Perilous Circuit Taking USO-Camp Shows To Remote Fighting Fronts.” Springfield Monitor, 22 June 1944, p. 7. https://www.newspapers.com/article/springfield-monitor/138110745/
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TIME CAPSULE: USO 06.23.1944
By VE Day, the USO was putting on 700 shows per day all around the world and, by the end of the war, had sent over 7,300 entertainers overseas to perform for the troops. Together, they put on an estimated 420,000 performances for over 130 million service member attendees. Source: “USO Camp Shows, D-Day and Entertaining…
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Lt. Dorothy Shikoski, Now Stationed At Bowman Field, To Relate Tales From Southwest Pacific Over WAVE
Source: Edstrom, Ed. “Lt. Dorothy Shikoski, Now Stationed At Bowman Field, To Relate Tales From Southwest Pacific Over WAVE.” The Courier-Journal, 24 June 1944, p. 13.https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal/138090845/ 2nd Lt. Dorothy Shikoski is the second Army Nurse to receive the Air Medal and the first woman to receive the award in the South Pacific. She was decorated…
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Army Nurses Win
Source:”‚“Army Nurses Win.” Des Moines Tribune, 27 July 1944, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/des-moines-tribune/138103399/ “Public Law 350, 78th Congress, granted Army nurses temporary commissions in the Army of the United States, with full pay and privileges of the grades from second lieutenant through colonel, for the duration of the emergency plus six months.” Source: “Chronology.” Higlights in…
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Letters From Readers: Men Nurses AWOL
Source: “Letters From Readers: Men Nurses AWOL.” The American Journal of Nursing, July 1944, p. 694. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3456540?origin=JSTOR-pdf
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Final General Hospital Article Gives Further Details
Source: “Final General Hospital Article Gives Further Details.” Longview News-Journal, 3 July 1944, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/longview-news-journal/127944727/