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Title: Hero and wife at Hollywood USO
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: Mrs. Hewitt T. Wheless, wife of bomber hero pilot Captain Hewitt T. Wheless, personally cited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, serves her famous husband coffee and donuts at the USO Hollywood Center. The captain and his wife, in company with James A. McCaffrey, Los Angeles campaign chairman, made a tour of USO centers in the metropolitan area in May 1942, where he told of his exploits in combat to other servicemen around him.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044068
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9611.
CARL0000048499
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14543
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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