From Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor 2009 Calendar.
October's calendar features blue, white, and red stripes, stars, with an eagle with wings outstretched on what appears to be a pile of dollar bills. Two bills are out, one of the $200 denomination.
This is to get money for the war effort, with the words: VICTORY--Now you can invest in it! VICTORY LOAN."
Sure hope they have these posters next year.
The photograph is of General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore during the initial landings at Leyte, P.I.. "I shall return."
Important dates:
October 7th-- 1943 Japanese execute approximately 100 American POWs on Wake Island.
October 20th-- 1944-- US Army invades Leyte in Philippines.
October 23-26-- 1944-- Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Greatest Generation. --Cooter
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