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-^CAMP ELLIS, ILL.—Womanpower solves the manpower shortage.
To keep U.S. fighting men supplied with clean sheets and blankets,
these women at the Army’s Quartermaster Laundry in Peona, Illinois,
load tons of linens daily. The job was formerly done by men. Because
clean linens are essential to soldier efficiency, civilians must watt -
longer for laundry service today. Keeping count of bundles ia a
i Wac, extreme left, in overalls. She drives the huge trailer-truck mor*
than a hundred miles every day from Camp Ellis to the laundry.
DODGERS* VISITOR —. Coast Guardsman Gene Her
— manski, former Brooklyn Dodger outfielder, chats with Coach
f Chuck Dressen (left) and Manager Leo Durocher on a visit to the
t Dodgers' training camp at Bear Mountain, N. Y.
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[ SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. —
L Soundphoto — Mir* Mary Nimitx,
f* daughter of Adm. and Mrs. C. W.
r Nimitx, is shown sponsoring the
L destroyer, U.S.S. Buck. launched
t- here. The parents of the girl wit
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VS. Marine Corps SounJpfioto
Supported bv tanks. U.S. Marines stage a frontal attack on Japanese positions in the £raJ^
of northern Iwo Jima. The blasts in the center are Jap mortar shells meant for the tank at the lett.
This advance netted twenty yards of ground.
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BATTLE ON THE P A $ IC—Exchanging point blank Are with Japanese machine gun dugouts on the opposite shore, a U S
LVT (landing vehicle. tankVchurns Its way up the Pasig river at Manila oi tusoo In the Philippines. ' vl ' /
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LITTLE MAN VIEWS BIG PLAN E—Harold Kirchendoll, 3 foot, 11 inch worker, looks
over a Curtiss C-46 Commando, at the Louisville, Ky„ Curtiss-Wright plant.