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Sarge at Large: 1942
September 1942. Washington, D.C. "Sergeant George Camplair takes his girl to have some refreshments after the United Service Organization (USO) dance while he is at home on a weekend furlough." Acetate negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.
Sweetheart Wings
The waitress is wearing the Army Air Corps insignia known as "Sweetheart Wings", meaning that her sweetheart is wearing wings himself and is on flying status. There are a lot of hidden stories in Shorpy photos.
But her hands tell the story
The two women are laughing because the waitress just asked George's girl how big of a fib George just told when he said he never looks at other girls. The date is saying, "Oh, I believe him."
Great title, KathyRo. It makes me wonder if any of Sergeant Camplair's girlfriends or his wife ever snuggled up to him and whispered, "I ruv you reorge."
Missing a stripe!
Looks like buck-sergeant George was promoted to staff-sergeant sometime between this photo and the next!
Promotion or Demotion
Well, between the soft serve and this photo, he was either promoted or demoted.
Sgt. Camplair's obituary
Chesterfields?
I see the advertising sign at the PX sold this guy on the brand! Boy do they both look innocent. I guess he hasn't seen the realities of war yet.
Cease Fire!
September of '42 seems to be a busy month for our erstwhile soldier. We see him peeling onions on KP in dungarees, then as a Staff Sergeant chatting up his future bride, and now as a buck Sergeant with another happy gal. Either he was a Staff Sergeant who transgressed and was punished for his sins, awarded company punishment, received KP as said punishment, and was reduced to buck Sergeant. If so the photos are out of order, or he started the month as a buck and was promoted. The other option is he was followed by the photographer(s) over a period of months for the usual propaganda purposes and were all published the same month. Geez!
[The majority of these 250-plus photos were never published until the negatives were scanned and put online. - Dave]
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