When the Pentagon announced that the early Autumn of 1942 saw the U.S. Navy enlistments increase by 150%, the editors of PM were not slow to dispatch a team down to the induction center to check it out – and the attached photo-essay was the result.
Click here to read more about NYC during the Second World War.
American Indians stepped up in huge numbers, too – and you can read about that here…
More about W.W. II induction can be read here
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67 Broad Street as it appears today.
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