#wacs

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Photograph of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in England

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

Original caption: As a Scottish piper instructs Pfc. Edith Gaskill, Arlington, Va., in the art of playing bagpipes, Pvt. Marie McKinney, Washington, D.C., examines his kilt. The Wacs are members of the first negro all-Wac postal unit to arrive in the European theater of operations. The unit will handle the Army Postal Directory Service for the entire theater. U.S. Army port, Greenock, Scotland.

Photographer: Pfc. George Holt.

In this black and white photograph, a man in the uniform of a Highlander regiment shows an African American WAC his bagpipes, while another African American WAC is touching his kilt.  Both WACs are in full uniform with overcoats, knapsacks, and combat helmets.

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Part of the contingent of 215 WACs aboard the Army transport Edmund B. Alexander waves goodbye from the deck of the converted German liner Amerika, as they get ready to leave New York for Europe, July 12, 1945. The women volunteered for overseas service and will replace soldiers and WACs now serving in England, France, and Germany.

Photo: Anthony Camerano for the AP

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Fraternisation

Although Franz understood that to have been captured and tied up by two American WACs was somewhat ignominious, he figured it was better than getting killed. Also, he hadn’t seen a woman in two years, so a spot of fraternisation with his coy female Amerikaner captors while they waited for transport, wouldn’t go amiss…

AI video clip created via PixVerse from an Ideogram original image.

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"Portuguese-American communities in California. Main street in San Leandro." Estudillo Avenue at 14th Street. Photographed April 1942 by Russell Lee for the Foreign Information Service of the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information.

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Vintage Comic - Sensation Comics #020

Pencils: H.G. Peters

Inks: H.G. Peters

DC (Aug1943)

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Grandmother Complex "a sleigh in time"

We skip from 1992 to 2015 to undefined time, and something pops up --

We go from having a grandmother who birthed relatively early to one who birthed relatively late.

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