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Photograph article dated November 18, 1960 reads, "Whenever Earl's Girls get together in Burbank for a kaffee-klatch, the clan's 'honorary mother' always hovers eagerly in the background. 'Grandma' Caves is hoping to snatch another body. The 'Girls' are mothers and wives of servicemen recruited by M/Sgt. Earl E. Caves, Burbank's senior Army recruiter and guardian angel of the hen parties. The monthly gatherings keep the women up-to-date on their Army men-folk and give Caves interesting leads on recruiting prospects. However fanciful the sergeant's methods may seem, they serve a purpose. Together with a dozen other recruiters in the Valley, Caves tries to sell a technologically-minded and many-sided Army to teenagers... All three sergeants - Caves, John B. McNeil of the North Hollywood recruiting station and Maurice C. Smith of the Reseda office - are men of varied experience. Their combined service totals 53 years and stretches from New Guinea jungle fighting to Nazi prison camps." Pictured, left to right, Smith, McNeil and Caves.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
United States.--Army Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Armed Forces--Recruiting Armed Forces--Officers Soldiers--United States Recruiting and enlistment Military uniforms Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs Portrait photographs Group portraits
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