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Title: Hero records message for troops
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Captain Hewitt T. Wheless, bomber hero pilot, makes a recorded message for the boys of his combat squadron in May 1942, while James A. McCaffrey, USO Los Angeles campaign chairman, and Mrs. Wheless watch. This action took place at the Hollywood USO center, during a tour made by McCaffrey, Capt. and Mrs. Wheless, of the many USO operations in the metropolitan area. Capt. Wheless will be a featured speaker at the USO opening-gun rally, to be held as a noon luncheon at the Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, May 11, 1942.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044062
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9611
CARL0000048497
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14541
Subject: Wheless, Hewitt T
McCaffrey, James A
United Service Organizations (U.S.)
Armed Forces
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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