And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tried to identify the insignia on her collar. I figured she was a nurse but it didn't look right. The answer: the Navy Nurse Corps insignia looked different back then. https://www.jessensrelics.com/images/USI/USI-054-2.jpg
Guy on the left, got the helmet, who the babe is smiling at, looks like might be Gen. Omar Bradley, with hands on his hips, see him like that in most photos.
What a peach.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine any cute young lady being surrounded by all of those horny GI's would be a thrill of a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteTried to identify the insignia on her collar. I figured she was a nurse but it didn't look right. The answer: the Navy Nurse Corps insignia looked different back then.
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That for which we fight.
ReplyDeleteShe be right purdy.
ReplyDeleteShe almost could be Shirley Temple's big sister.
ReplyDeleteNot a man in that picture that wasn’t in love with her - at least, temporarily in love with her. She is adorable.
ReplyDeleteAnd back at the age of those young men, love and lust were the exact same thing.
DeleteGuy on the left, got the helmet, who the babe is smiling at, looks like might be Gen. Omar Bradley, with hands on his hips, see him like that in most photos.
ReplyDeleteIf she's who I think she is, she was the first Navy nurse to fly into both Iwo Jima and Okinawa on a plane to evacuate wounded Marines.
ReplyDeleteGod bless our Navy corpsmen and nurses!!!
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