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[Benefits of Reenlistment]

Document listing the benefits of reenlisting in the Marine Corps, including a reenlistment period; mustering out pay; reenlistment allowance; choice of station; furlough travel allowance; furlough if you reenlist for two, three, or four years; retention of rank; transfer to fleet Marine Corps Reserve after 20 years of service; and retirement.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Text

Partner: Arlington Public Library

[Four Soldiers Outside Camp]

Photograph of four soldiers in uniform standing in front of a row of tents. Three are standing, holding their rifles, and one is kneeling. The man on the right is identified as Shultze.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Three Soldiers With Weapons]

Photograph of three soldiers, C. E Few, Clark, and Cole, standing in front of a tent holding their weapons. They are wearing pants, shoes, and helmets.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Photograph of a Cannon]

Photograph of a burnt out cannon in front of a forest.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Four Boys Sitting On a Rock]

Photograph of four boys outside arranged around a rock. They are identified as Grub, Richard A. Fanning, Ashcraft, and Ray. The two on the left stand behind the rock, while the third sits on it and the fourth sits in the third boy's lap. Trees are visible behind them.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[James Tucker In Uniform]

Photograph of James "Jim" Tucker in his military uniform. A handwritten note in the bottom right corner reads: "To a swell daddy, Love, Jimmy."

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Herkie Clark Standing Next to Jeep]

Photograph of Herkie Clark standing next to a Jeep.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

["This Is Corps Humor"]

News clipping of a fake points system for getting out of the United States Military during World War II.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: Arlington Public Library

[Enlisted Man's Pass]

A blank "enlisted man's pass," used to authorize a soldier to be away from his post.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[First Methodist Church Pamphlet]

Pamphlet issued by the First Methodist Church, detailing an upcoming service where the church will replace plaques honoring members of the congregation who served and died in World War II.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

["A Medal, please, for a service man's wife"]

Poem, written anonymously, entitled "A Medal, please, for a service man's wife". It tells of a returning soldier who wishes to give his wife a medal for enduring life without him.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Poem

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[H. I. Clark Holding a Skull]

Photograph of H. I. Clark standing outside. He is shirtless and wears a helmet. He holds a rifle in one hand and a skull in the other. Foliage and a tent are visible behind him.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Coupon Book]

Coupon book supplied by the Panama Canal Supply Department Commissary.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Creator: Panama Canal Supply Department

Item Type: Book

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Howard Vaughan, U. S. Navy Seabees]

Photograph of Howard Vaughan, of the U. S. Navy Seabees, in his military uniform.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Public Library

[Application for Special Shoe Stamp]

Application for a special shoe stamp, to be used to buy new shoes. Instructions at the top request: "do not fill in this application unless you will suffer serious hardship if you are unable to obtain an extra shoe ration before a new War Ration Stamp becomes valid. Hardship need not be shown to replace defective shoes."

Date: 1940~/1949~

Creator: United States. Office of Price Administration.

Item Type: Text

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Four Soldiers In A Camp]

Photograph of four soldiers, James Menlinger, Rodey Scinto, Calvin Rosacken, and John Weik, standing outside in their camp in the desert. Scanto, Rosacken, and Weik are shirtless.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Soldiers at Guadalcanal]

Photograph of eleven soldiers sitting by their tent in the forests of Guadalcanal. They are identified as La Rue, Mamola, Tooter, "your old man," Pappy, Wasylenko, Lukens, Wojten, Cooke, Licht, and Morris.

Date: 1940~/1949~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum