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Manpower, junior size. "After this old tire's been done over, it will make twelve gas masks. Just think! You'll save the lives of twelve soldiers!" These fifth graders in the Gainsboro Elementary School in Roanoke, Virginia had been gathering scrap on their own, even before the junior commandos were organized there. Eagerly, they listen to teacher Nettie Traynham tell them that now--along with thirty-million other young Americans--they are part of America's junior army to collect scrap for our fighting men

Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher asks. Willing hands shoot up and eager voices cry "Yes!" Everyone in this Roanoke, Virginia class wants to be one of the thirty-million children banding together throughout the United States to form America's junior army, young fighters to collect scrap for ammunition

Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher asks. Willing hands shoot up and eager voices cry "Yes!" Everyone in this Roanoke, Virginia class wants to be one of the thirty-million children banding together throughout the United States to form America's junior army, young fighters to collect scrap for ammunition

Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher asks. Willing hands shoot up and eager voices cry "Yes!" Everyone in this Roanoke, Virginia class wants to be one of the thirty-million children banding together throughout the United States to form America's junior army, young fighters to collect scrap for ammunition

Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher asks. Willing hands shoot up and eager voices cry "Yes!" Everyone in this Roanoke, Virginia class wants to be one of the thirty-million children banding together throughout the United States to form America's junior army, young fighters to collect scrap for ammunition

Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher asks. Willing hands shoot up and eager voices cry "Yes!" Everyone in this Roanoke, Virginia class wants to be one of the thirty-million children banding together throughout the United States to form America's junior army, young fighters to collect scrap for ammunition

Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher asks. Willing hands shoot up and eager voices cry "Yes!" Everyone in this Roanoke, Virginia class wants to be one of the thirty-million children banding together throughout the United States to form America's junior army, young fighters to collect scrap for ammunition

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Manpower, junior size. The spirit of '42. The Jefferson High School drum and bugle corps in Roanoke, Virginia started the junior commando rally with a fanfare and a drum roll. Outside of the auditorium, the "military band" prepared to enter the hall where Roanoke school children awaited the opening of the rally that was to number them as part of America's junior army to collect scrap for our armed forces

Manpower, junior size. "After this old tire's been done over, it will make twelve gas masks. Just think! You'll save the lives of twelve soldiers!" These fifth graders in the Gainsboro Elementary School in Roanoke, Virginia had been gathering scrap on their own, even before the junior commandos were organized there. Eagerly, they listen to teacher Nettie Traynham tell them that now--along with thirty-million other young Americans--they are part of America's junior army to collect scrap for our fighting men

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Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches).

File print misnumbered LC-USE6-D-6442; corrected June 2000.

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 1660.

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virginia roanoke safety film negatives lot 1935 howard liberman united states office of war information scrap twelve gas masks twelve soldiers gainsboro elementary school teacher nettie traynham office of war information farm security administration elementary schools education united states history classroom school library of congress
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01/01/1942
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roanoke
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virginia roanoke safety film negatives lot 1935 howard liberman united states office of war information scrap twelve gas masks twelve soldiers gainsboro elementary school teacher nettie traynham office of war information farm security administration elementary schools education united states history classroom school library of congress