Contributed by Bangor Public Library
Description
Caption from the Bangor Daily News, 17 Oct. 1944, "Pvt. Vera Edwards mails packages to her soldier sons overseas, just making the October 15 deadline on Christmas packages."
The deadline on Christmas packages to the front was surprisingly early, since the delivery of parcels had to be prioritized along with many other supplies and munitions. Although it was possible to send items after this date, there was no guarantee that they would be received in time. Pvt. Edwards had two sons serving overseas, Pvt. Jack Mitchell, a physical instructor in England, and Pfc. Dick Mitchell, a Marine whose picture was in National Geographic Magazine after the Amphibious Corps took the Emirau Islands.
About This Item
- Title: Pvt. Vera Edwards mails a Christmas package, Bangor, 1944
- Creator: Signal Section Dow Field
- Creation Date: 1944-11-15
- Subject Date: 1944-11-15
- Location: Dow Field, Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 10 cm
- Local Code: 974.131 .D752a v.1
- Collection: Dow Field Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Christmas
- Dow Air Force Base (Me.)--Facilities
- Dow Field Hospital (Me.)
- Post offices--Maine--Bangor
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
- Women--Military service
- World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel
- World War, 1939-1945--War work
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- Air Force
- Army Air Corps
- Christmas
- Dow Air Force Base
- Dow Field
- Military
- Post Office
- W.A.C.
- WAC
- Women's Army Corps
- World War Two
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