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This is a still image from the news reel "Avenge Pearl Harbor" where they appeal to the hearts of Americans across the nation.

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Political cartoon questioning immigration laws which exclude Japanese yet admit "Reds, revolutionists, enemy aliens, and I.W.W.'s"

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Alaska - death-trap for the Jap / Grigware. Propaganda Poster for Thirteenth Naval District, United States Navy, showing a rat wearing a rising sun fez, representing Japan, approaching a mousetrap labeled "Army / Civilian / Navy", on a background map…

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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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Presumed sailor/seaman who is drowning and is pointing his index finger toward the audience.

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This is the official WASP photograph of Ola "Millie" "Sexy Rexy" Rexroat, the only Native American woman (Oglala Lakota) to serve as a WASP.

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This is a clipping from the April 10, 1943 Lansing State Journal concerning Grace Thorpe's joining the WAAC in Detroit, Michigan.

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This is a clipping from the August 27, 1943 edition of the Ogden Standard-Examiner. Grace Thorpe had just been shipped from Fort Oglethorpe to Ogden, UT.

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This is a July 24, 1943 newspaper clipping from the Gazette and Daily featuring Grace Thorpe's graduation from Fort Oglethorpe, GA.
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