United Nations Service Center at Capitol Park Hotel
Washington D C hosts the United Nations Service Center the largest wartime canteen for servicemen and families. It opened October 27 1943 operates 570 beds with free nursery services and two officers and enlisted cafeterias.
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Washington, D. C
United Nations Service Center
Capitol Park Hotel
Recreation Services
War Hospitality Committee
United States
United Nations
Flags
Armed Services
Stanley Wicklund
Boston
Mass
Naval Air Base
Patuxent River
General Staff
Military District of
Washington
Potomac River Naval Command
Rochelle Z. Kendall
Dallas
Texas
Luther Gulick
Land Maritime Service trains boots into skilled seamen
The U S Maritime Service at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn offers boot and advanced training to recruits from across the country. Recruits learn gunnery health and sail handling, later proceeding to deck engine and cook programs aboard training ships on Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay, with pay and uniforms provided.
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U. S. Maritime Service
Sheepshead Bay
Brooklyn
N. Y
Uncle Sam
Nebraska
Indiana
Alabama
Michigan
Long Island Sound
Chesapeake Bay
Maritime Service Hospital Corps School
America
Maritime Service
Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
Merchant Marine
War Shipping Administration
U. S. Maritime Commission
U. S. Employment Service
Hoffman Island
St. Petersburg
Fla
Avalon
Calif
Training in firefighting and life saving aboard S S Sheepshead Bay
Trainees practice fighting a flaming oil fire in the aft hold while three men on the bridge spray water to cool and confine the blaze. A foregound man stands ready with new foam extinguishers. Apprentices learn breeches buoy rescue and other life saving methods aboard.
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S. S. Sheepshead Bay
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Kitragin CO
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Washington Civilian
Nursary
AWVS
Union Station
Army
Navy
Wicklund
Wicklunds
Bobby
L Olli Ogd
Fred Brady
Brady
M.G.M
Atrant
Winng
Jane Powell
Portland
Hollywood
Bill Goodwin
Bill
Ingrid Bergman
Dr. Edwardes
John Hodiak
Rudy Vallee
Connecticut
United States Coast Guard
Preston Sturges
Vallee
Bobby Sock Brigade
Sinatra
RKO
Frankie
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Bergen
Amos
Andy
Abbott and Costello
Universal
Olsen and Johnson
Lum
Abner
Fibber
Molly McGee
Hollywood Corral
Bud
Eisenhower
Montgomery
Groucho Marx
Marian
Frank Sinatra
Dr. Caldwell
Senna
Willys
Spurlock-Neal Co
Nashville
Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
WNU
Doan
Doans
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