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  • Tags: World War II

Yaphank, YA008.jpg
View of barracks at Camp Upton during World War II. Message and addressee information, both handwritten, on verso. (Color)

Yaphank, YA022.jpg
Facsimile of a 1942 photograph of barracks at Camp Upton during World War II. (B&W)

Abe Isoo.jpg
A photograph of Abe Isoo (1865-1949), a moderate socialist who became the president of the Social Democratic party and the Social Masses party.

Hitler reviews troops in 1933.jpg
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Führer of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He initiated World War II and was responsible for the mass killings of Jews and other minorities throughout Europe. He is pictured here speaking to the Reichstag, driving in a…

Benito Mussolini.jpg
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He was titled 'Il Duce,' which means 'The Leader' in Italian. He led the National Fascist Party and later joined Germany and Japan to form the Axis Powers during the war.

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King Boris III (1894-1943) was the Tsar of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death. Pictured greeting an Archbishop at the international land of the Black Sea, for a tribute to fallen warriors.

Yaphank, YA023.jpg
Facsimile of a 1942 photograph of barracks and other buildings at Camp Upton. The grounds of the camp are covered in snow. (B&W)

President Franklin D Roosevelt.jpg
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) was the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was the fifth cousin of former President Theodore Roosevelt, as well as the former Senator and Governor of New York. Roosevelt entered…

Opening the Fair (Green) week, Berlin, 1937.jpg
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, and among those most directly responsible for the Holocaust. Pictured with Goering at a food investigation at a German women’s workshop.

Henri Philippe Benoni & Omes Joseph Retain.jpg
Generally known as Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), the French Marshal and Prime Minister/Chief of the French State from 1940-1944 is pictured here with US General John J.
Pershing (1860-1948), leaving Pétain’s inauguration ceremony.
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