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80-G-41502: U.S. Naval Operating Base, Sitka, Alaska

80-G-41502: U.S. Naval Operation Base, Sitka, Alaska. Sitting on a pile of sandbags at Sitka, Alaska, Private First Class Audrey Hopkins Hall, USMC, reads his letter from home. It is 21 feet and 3.5 inches long. It was started by his sister, circulated among his relatives and completed by his wife, Eleanor, a welder in a war plant, 18 March 1943. Sitka was established in 1939. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/6/12).
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Caption: U.S. Naval Operationing Base, Sitka, Alaska. Sitting on a pile of sandbags at Sitka, Alaska, Private First Class Audrey Hopkins Hall, USMC, reads his letter from home. It is 21 feet and 3.5 inches long. It was started by his sister, circulated among his relatives and completed by his wife, Eleanor, a welder in a war plant, March 18, 1943. Sitka was established in 1939. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/6/12).
Accession #: 80-G-41502
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