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  • Collection: The American Experience in World War II

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Dr Seuss depiction of Tojo during call for contribution to the war

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This is a strip of eighteen one-panel comics containing Winnie the WAC, as a caricature of women in the Women's Army Corps. These eighteen panels were featured in a 1945 edition of Life Magazine.

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Soldiers Willie and Joe in French Alps

"I ast her to teach me to yodel. She taught me to yodel."

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One soldier points his pistol to another saying "Didn't we meet at Cassino?"

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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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This is the poster for the hit 1954 Paramount movie, White Christmas. It was one of Crosby's biggest film hits.

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Various Para-shoots: two with silhouetted men and the other a crate which is symbolized supplies for the troops.

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Illustration shows James Garfield and Winfield S. Hancock nailing a Chinese man between two "Anti-Chinese" boards labeled "Republican Plank" and "Democratic Plank".

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Western Comics #1 (Jan./Feb. 1948). Artwork by Howard Sherman
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