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  • Collection: The American Experience in World War II

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Superman is battling a Nazi paratrooper

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Esquire Magazine image of a Varga Girl with Women's Army Auxillary Corps accessories.

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Blazing West issue #3. Comic book cover of white man being attacked by an Indian warrior.

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Film posters of perhaps the most iconic surf genre actors of the time. Anette Funicello and Frankie Avalon stared in many surf movies. Most notably starred in back to the beach movies.

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Anita Arden and unidentified performers at Stage Door Canteen during World War II

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Cover, Apache Kid #2 (Feb. 1951), Atlas Comics (1950s). Cover art by Werner Roth

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This is a newspaper clipping from the December 9, 1944 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, mentioning Grace Thorpe's WAC service.

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This image shows us Bing Crosby playing his piano in New York after returning from a tour overseas in France and England. He is donning a German helmet (stahlhelm), a gift from one soldier he met over there.

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Wills is seen here riding his favorite horse, Punkin. This photo was taken at his Hollywood home in 1944.

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Willi and Joe digging what may be a trench or grave. Artist Bill Mauldin drew these characters during his tenure in World War II.

"Me future is settled, Willie. I'm gonna be a perfessor on types o' European soil."
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