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Description:
Private First Class A.C. Maynard, on patrol near a rubber plantation about 40 miles north of Saigon, keeps his Bible dry by strapping it to his helmet with an elastic band.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Maynard, A. C.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Jungle warfare., Soldiers, Black--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City
Geographic subjects:
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147155
Description:
Hilfswerk worker welcomes disabled German war veterans to the home in the American zone.
Creator:
Thorkelson. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany., Disabled veterans--Germany., Humanitarian assistance, American--Germany.
Geographic subjects:
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147004
Description:
Oliver Davis Collins, of Latham, New York (L), an United States Army Infantry Squad Leader who participated in liberating Dachau on April 29, 1945 talks with Julian Noga of Utica, New York a former slave laborer at Flossenburg Concentration Camp at an Albany Interfaith prayer service sponsored by the Polish-American Congress Central District of New York State. The occasion marks the 35th Anniversary of the liberation of Dachau.
Creator:
Saidel, Rochelle G. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Dachau (Concentration camp), Polish American Congress., Noga, Julian, -1921., Collins, Oliver D., Norden, Martin., Silton, Paul B.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Geographic subjects:
Albany (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146986
Description:
Blood petitions made by North Korean prisoners of war who did not want to return to Communist North Korea following the armistice in 1953. Features an explanatory letter written by Charles A. Anderson to Rev. Harold Voelkel, a chaplain to POWs during the war.
Subject names:
Anderson, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1889-1962., Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons., Prisoners of war--Korea., Fingerprints.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145118

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