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A cover of Star Spangled Banter by Bill Mauldin

A comic strip taken from the Star Spangled Banter.

Captions in clockwise order from the top:

"The 45th is moving into its new temporary (we hope) field camp in the cornfields of Camp Barkeley."

"There will be hot water"

"Recruit, the only…

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

A page taken from the Star Spangled Banter

Soldiers Willie and Joe in French Alps

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

Gene Autry is seen here enlisting for the Army Air Force in 1942.

She Talked, this happened poster, showing what would happen with careless talk. A woman on the top half mentioning that someone is leaving, with a sunken ship on the bottom half to demonstrate what occurred because of it.

This is a 1943 service photograph of Blackfeet woman Minnie Spotted Wolf, the first Native American woman to enlist in the MCWR.

A scene from the John Ford classic The Searchers. The film is the apex of both the Western genre and Ford's filmography. It shows the complex nature of Victory Culture in post-WWII.

The scene is between a Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards (John…

"Special Agent" cover. Hoover looks to the right in the center of images that show what an FBI recruit may have to do, including shooting, multiple types of exercise, and investigation.