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[Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in Parade Car With J. Edgar Hoover]

Description: Photograph of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sitting in the back of a parade car decorated with red, white and blue next to J. Edgar Hoover. Admiral Nimitz is in formal Navy Uniform sitting with his hands in his lap and his head looking over to the right. Sitting on the right side of the car J. Edgar Hoover is wearing a light-colored fedora and long black coat with his hands folded in his lap. there is a driver sitting behind the wheel in a black and white suit and driving hat. On either side … more
Date: 1945?
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 4, March, 1945]

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter with updates on circumstances in the lives of congregation members and the community; a description of a recent visit by missionaries who had been interned in China, including how they ate their East Sweden meal with chop sticks; details of area churches' stand-by plans for a V-E day prayer service to celebrate "news of the collapse of Germany"; and a sermon urging that, at the end of World War II, "we... be more than conquerors… more
Date: March 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 2, January, 1945]

Description: An issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing a sermon about "resolutions and revolutions" and sending New Year's greetings to the servicemen from the church's "Mothers, Wives, Sisters etc." that were written while the church members were gathered at the "old meeting place - School House" to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 3, February, 1945]

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, encouraging the servicemen to participate with the congregation in reading a "Book of the Bible per month"; providing information about the "boys," including a humorous account of Sgt. Jack Gallaway's having been "placed over" the WACs in England's signal corps; reporting a special service held at the Prisoner of War camp; urging the servicemen to not give up their personal freedoms, especially to tobacco or alcohol; and provid… more
Date: February 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission
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