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"Negro Enlisted Men at Work on the Load Line, U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot", Hastings, Nebraska, 1944(?)

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, 283499

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View Looking West on First Street at Hastings, Nebraska, 1944(?)

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, hastings_town2_39-0182a

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Cabin in the Sky Café, Apex Tavern, and Janie’s Talamie Café and Recreation Parlor. This area was probably along First Street, which became notorious for "rowdy" behavior. US Naval Ammunition Depot, Hastings, Nebraska; circa 1944.

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, 283496

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View of attendance at a movie in the Permanent Recreation Building. Note that the seating is segregated with white service people on the left and blacks on the right. US Naval Ammunition Depot, Hastings, Nebraska; circa 1944.

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, 283490

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POW soccer game at Fort Robinson, 1944

Courtesy History Nebraska, RG2608-1265

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German POW in front of a camp truck at Fort Robinson, Nebraska; probably getting ready for a work detail, circa 1940s

Courtesy History Nebraska, RG2608-1265

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Col. Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before the takeoff, August 6, 1945

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, U.S. Army Air Forces

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World War II Asian Axis Dictator: Tojo, Hideki, Prime Minister & Minister of War, Japan; Photograph captured by U.S. Army, mid 1940s

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Lt. Col. Paul Adams in P40 plane, 1940s

Courtesy NET Television

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A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800-ton USS West Virginia burning in the foreground at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, 306532

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Soldiers running during WWII combat in Europe

Courtesy History Nebraska, RG2608-1265

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Nebraskan Combat Experiences in World War II

What is it like to be under enemy fire or waiting for an attack?Find out what happened to several Nebraskans during combat,both in the European and Asian Theatres of War.

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Warren Miller; Boatswain's Mate First Class, USS Utah, USS Detroit, USS Apprentice, 1941

Courtesy Warren Miller & NET Foundation for Television

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Richard Connell modern interview; World War II Staff Sergeant, 3250th Signal Service Company

Courtesy NET Foundation for Television

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D-Day Invasion

Courtesy NET Foundation for Television & U.S. Government Archives

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Mexican boy working in sugar beet fields; Lincoln County, Nebraska, 1938

Courtesy Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress, LincolnCo_8b14119r

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Ben Kuroki; Army Air Forces Technical Sergeant, 93rd Bombardment Group, born in Hershey, NE

Courtesy Ben Kuroki

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During the war, Ben Kuroki speaks at an event at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming relocation center. Coming from Nebraska as a poor dirt farmer, Kuroki thought he was not cut out for public speaking. Reports of his excellent speaking skills proved otherwise.

War Relocation Authority photo. Courtesy Ben Kuroki & National Archives & Records Administration

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B. Nakada (center left) in Delta Phi Delta, an honorary art sorority; 1944 Cornhusker, UNL Yearbook

Courtesy University of Nebraska Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

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German storm troopers force Jewish people from the Warsaw ghetto to move with their hands up; Warsaw Ghetto — May, 1943, from "The Stroop Report: The Warsaw Ghetto is No More"

Courtesy The Holocaust History Project

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"Negro Enlisted Men at Work on the Load Line, U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot", Hastings, Nebraska, 1944(?)

View Looking West on First Street at Hastings, Nebraska, 1944(?)

Cabin in the Sky Café, Apex Tavern, and Janie’s Talamie Café and Recreation Parlor. This area was probably along First Street, which became notorious for "rowdy" behavior. US Naval Ammunition Depot, Hastings, Nebraska; circa 1944.

View of attendance at a movie in the Permanent Recreation Building. Note that the seating is segregated with white service people on the left and blacks on the right. US Naval Ammunition Depot, Hastings, Nebraska; circa 1944.

POW soccer game at Fort Robinson, 1944

German POW in front of a camp truck at Fort Robinson, Nebraska; probably getting ready for a work detail, circa 1940s

Col. Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before the takeoff, August 6, 1945

World War II Asian Axis Dictator: Tojo, Hideki, Prime Minister & Minister of War, Japan; Photograph captured by U.S. Army, mid 1940s

Lt. Col. Paul Adams in P40 plane, 1940s

A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800-ton USS West Virginia burning in the foreground at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Soldiers running during WWII combat in Europe

Nebraskan Combat Experiences in World War II

Warren Miller; Boatswain's Mate First Class, USS Utah, USS Detroit, USS Apprentice, 1941

Richard Connell modern interview; World War II Staff Sergeant, 3250th Signal Service Company

D-Day Invasion

Mexican boy working in sugar beet fields; Lincoln County, Nebraska, 1938

Ben Kuroki; Army Air Forces Technical Sergeant, 93rd Bombardment Group, born in Hershey, NE

During the war, Ben Kuroki speaks at an event at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming relocation center. Coming from Nebraska as a poor dirt farmer, Kuroki thought he was not cut out for public speaking. Reports of his excellent speaking skills proved otherwise.

B. Nakada (center left) in Delta Phi Delta, an honorary art sorority; 1944 Cornhusker, UNL Yearbook

German storm troopers force Jewish people from the Warsaw ghetto to move with their hands up; Warsaw Ghetto — May, 1943, from "The Stroop Report: The Warsaw Ghetto is No More"