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NEWSREEL: YouTube – Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s D-Day Message
Source: US Army Website Videos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERvSxq6hDZ0&list=PLitjSv4SbrkxgcfKV5KFSe5Vi1FfQjpKn&index=1 Read More: General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Order of the Day (1944)
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20 Nurses Needed on Kuakini Staff
Source: “20 Nurses Needed on Kuakini Staff.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 6 June 1944, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/135986417/
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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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LETTER: June 12, 1944
Dear Dad, On this day, we wish you all our best, and may you enjoy yourself. No news here. But the war on both fronts looks good, doesn”™t it? Hope you are both well. Must say bye and get this in the mail. Aloha – AraBelle and James
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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…