DAR scrapbook, 1945-46
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This scrapbook contains hundreds of clippings from the Greensboro Daily News and the Greensboro Record, including notices of wartime enlistments, graduations, promotions, transfers, casualties, furloughs, everyday life and entertainment in war times, military growth and expansion, local patriotic events, personal war stories, status updates for POWs and MIAs, the awarding of purple hearts and other military commendations, the gradual return of troops after the end of the war, etc. Clippings include content about women members of the military and the efforts of women's organizations on the home front, as well as campaigns by other groups. The scrapbook is labeled as having content from 1945 and 1946, but it only contains items from January-December 1945. Content is divided by month, and several months are separated by a page illustrated with art, including magazine clippings of unknown origins, drawings, and watercolor. This scrapbook includes articles on military transportation of refugees (January 1945, Page 005), the death of Greensboro fighter ace Major George Preddy Jr. (January 1945, Page 014) and the naming of a Greensboro military post after him (March 1945, Page 060) as well as memorializing his death later on (September 1945, Pages 175 & 177; October 1945, Page 193), a local flier serving as pilot chauffeur to Churchill and King George (March 1945, Page 061), a Greensboro officer who was made the military major of a captured German town (March 1945, Page 073), the Life magazine article on President Roosevelt's death (April 1945, Page 077) and local arrangements on the day of his funeral (April 1945, Pages 088 & 091). Also included in the scrapbook is a bulletin from Greensboro's First Presbyterian Church including selections from military families' letters of appreciation for their military ministry (April 1945, Page 079), the headline from V-E Day (May 1945, Page 106), and articles about a local project of canning baked goods to send to soldiers abroad (April 1945, Page 095), the selection of personnel to prosecute European war criminals (May 1945, Page 111), the liberation of American servicemen from European POW camps (May 1945, Pages 111-121; June 1945, Pages 124 & 135; August 1945, Pages 160 & 169; October 1945, Page 188), a Greensboro infantryman who printed a regimental newspaper throughout battles in France and Germany (July 1945, Page 141), conditions in Japanese internment camps (July 1945, Page 147), V-J Day (August 1945, Pages 162-164; September 1945, Pages 174 & 176) and the release of POWs from Japanese camps (August 1945, Page 170 & 172; September 1945, Pages 179 & 180; October 1945, Pages 189 & 196; November 1945, Pages 198 & 206). The last page of the scrapbook features a stenciled attribution, "Compiled by Margaret F. Dupuy, Assisted by Eula Duncan" (December 1945, Page 219).
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