MAKE A MEME View Large Image THAT'S RIGHT... THE WAR IS OVER... FOR HIM - NARA - 515556.jpg Scope and content General notes This picture was taken on May 14 1944 Mother's Day Here is part of a letter Bill Allen wrote to his wife on May 15 1944 I came across this ...
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Keywords: THAT'S RIGHT... THE WAR IS OVER... FOR HIM - NARA - 515556.jpg Scope and content General notes This picture was taken on May 14 1944 Mother's Day Here is part of a letter Bill Allen wrote to his wife on May 15 1944 I came across this doughboy I had seen get it just about a half an hour before There he was his rifle in his hand the stock of it had been shattered by the same shell that got him He was not banged up much just around the neck but it was enough I looked at him for full two minutes before I could make a picture of him You know the thought that went through my mind It was May 14 Mother ™s Day and I got to thinking What a hell of a Mother ™s Day gift for his mother A couple of shells woke we me and reminded me that there was still a war going on so I made a couple of pictures of him and took off for the highway 515556 Local identifier 44-PA-1877 Office for Emergency Management Office of War Information Domestic Operations Branch Bureau of Special Services 03/09/1943 - 09/15/1945 Photograph by William C Allen AP War Correspondent Near the town of Minturno Italy Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1941 - 1945 Mother's Day May 14 1944 Record group Record Group 44 Records of the Office of Government Reports 1932 - 1947 Record group ARC 373 World War II Posters compiled 1942 - 1945 Series ARC 513498 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-44-PA-1877 Other versions <gallery> File THAT'S_RIGHT _THE_WAR_IS_OVER _FOR_HIM_-_NARA_-_515556 tif tif File THAT'S_RIGHT _THE_WAR_IS_OVER _FOR_HIM_-_NARA_-_515556 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov World War II posters from the United States
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