Hotel Canteen Serves Servicemen and Families in DC
Washington D C hosts the United Nations Service Center formerly Capitol Park hotel. The Navy and Army run a 570 bed canteen with free nursery and two officer and enlisted cafeterias. It accepts no reservations first come, first served. The 1 000 000th visiting serviceman was Petty Officer 3/c Stanley Wicklund.
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Washington, D. C
United Nations Service Center
Capitol Park Hotel
Recreation Services
War Hospitality Committee
United States
United Nations
Flags
Washington
Armed Services
Stanley Wicklund
Boston
Mass
Naval Air Base
Patuxent River
Wicklund
Wicklands
Bobby
Land-Lubbers Turn Seamen In Six Months Training
The US Maritime Service at Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn trains landlocked recruits into merchant seamen in six months. Recruits endure boot camp with gunnery and safety instruction then advance to deck engine cook and hospital corps tracks aboard training ships on Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay. Pay is $50 monthly, uniforms and quarters provided, with four major training stations nationwide.
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Maritime Service
Sheepshead Bay
Brooklyn
N. Y
Uncle Sam
Nebraska
Indiana
Alabama
Michigan
U S. Maritime Service
U. S. Maritime Service
Long Island Sound
Chesapeake Bay
Cooks and Bakers
Maritime Service Hospital Corps School
Merchant Marine Act
America
Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
Merchant Marine
War Shipping Administration
US Maritime Commission
U. S. Employment Service
Hoffman Island
St. Petersburg
Fla
Avalon
Calif
Firefighting and lifeboat training on board at Sheepshead Bay
Trainees practice fighting a fire in the aft hold of a vessel at Sheepshead Bay as three men on the bridge spray water to cool plates and confine the blaze. A apprentice seaman learns breeches buoy rescue and other life saving methods on deck.
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Sheepshead Bay
Winkle Told He Is Selected for Army Draft
Forty four year old Wilbert Winkle learns he is in I A after a local draft board decision. A neighborhood send off follows with neighbors debating his usefulness while Amy supports him quietly. He prepares to leave, including a nervous night and a will, as the story hints at his first induction.
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Wilbert Winkle
I-A
Amy
Winkle
Springville
Mr. Winkle
Wilbert
Mrs. Winkle
Mr Winkle
Mrs Winkle
Mr.Winkle
Pettigrews
Jack
Mrs. Pettigrew
Mr. Pettigrew
Mr. Wescott
Wescott
Mr Wescott
Penelope
The
United States
Wilbert St.George Winkle
Army
Maple Avenue
Mr. Selectee
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General Staff
Military District of
Potomac River Naval Command
Rochelle Z. Kendall
Dallas
Texas
Luther Gulick
AWVS
Union Station
Navy
MR. Winkle Vurotie Gols
President
Willys
Ught Tractor
Power Plan
Warwick Manufacturing Corp
W. Hanisen Street
Chicago
Minois
Hein
Ryu Eh
Lydia E. Pinkham
WNU
Lars
Emi Ag
Pnty
Dean
Pia
Doans
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