#The Longest Day Colorized Download series
Boozman is a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and is hosting a series of listening sessions with Arkansas veterans. The veterans were there to have a closed-door discussion about their issues with the Veterans Choice health-care program. They not only rebuilt our country but provided the protection for Europe and much of the rest of the world so they can rebuild. “We do want to thank this special generation that went off and did incredible things, ordinary people who did extraordinary things, came back and just went back to work. Burnett on the back and thank him for his service,” Boozman said before a large group of veterans gathered at the American Legion Ellig-Stoufer Post 31.
The senator called Burnett among the “greatest generation” and thanked him for his service. James Donald Neal Burnett, 91, of Alma was presented several medals, including the World War II Victory Medal, by U.S. Navy veteran who served in the Pacific during World War II finally received his service medals April 12 at the American Legion in Fort Smith, Arkansas - 71 years to the day from when he honorably discharged. After eight weeks of training, he will go into the civil service.Ī U.S. Potter, a National Youth Administration trainee from Michigan, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repairs department of the naval air base, supervises Chas. They show some of the amazing changes that the war helped usher into the US, such as women in the workforce and the widespread adoption of aerial and mechanized warfare. The following photos, from the US Library of Congress, give us a rare glimpse of life in the US during World War II in color.
Though the US did not enter into the war officially until after Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the global war still affected the country. Reeling from the start of the Great Depression in 1929, the world soon faced a greater disaster with World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945. The 1930s and 1940s were a time of upheaval for the US and the world at large. Marines finishing training at Parris Island in South Carolina./Alfred T.
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