Nashua Historical Society preserving legacy of veterans in World War II exhibit
A general delivery postal station on exhibit in the World War II room of the Nashua Historical Society is accessorized with posters urging friends and family at home to write letters to their overseas military members that will "Keep 'em Smiling" and urges, "Write Today and Often." Photo by LORETTA JACKSON
A donated wartime uniform displayed at the Nashua Historical Society's World War II room heralds the contributions of Earl Brown, a local whose service to the Navy began at age 17 in 1946 and whose dedication took him despite the war's official end through the waters of Japan as an electrical engineer aboard both a destroyer and an ammunition ship. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON
Models of World War II aircraft, along with tanks, cruisers, landing craft and battleships displayed in the World War II room of the Nashua Historical Society were donated by Francis Moore, a local member of the Granite State Modelers Club, a regional scale-model makers club affiliated with the International Plastic Modelers Society. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON
The aged newsprint of a Honolulu Star-Bulletin of Dec. 7, 1941, proclaims "WAR!" and informs its readership that Oahu has been bombed by Japanese planes, Martial Law declared and that more than 400 deaths thus far are documented, is among the prized artifacts displayed in the World War II room of the Nashua Historical Society. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON
A full color rendering of Rosie the Riveter, as penned by Norman Rockwell for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post edition of May 29, 1943, illustrating the power and importance of the many wartime jobs mastered by the women of World War II, is displayed in the World War II room of the Nashua Historical Society. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON
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