In this installment of Children in the Archives, we look at images of the Vance Allison Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post No. 2933 Junior Corps Band in the 1940s, reflecting on children’s participation on the home front during World War II. As we approach National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day this Saturday, also take a moment to remember Savannah’s first casualty of World War II, George K. Gannam, who lost his life at the young age of 22 (barely an adult) during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. A scrapbook documenting Gannam’s service and sacrifice, assembled by his mother, can be viewed online (digitized scrapbook).
Junior Corps Band for the Vance Allison Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post No. 2933, in front of the Guaranty Life Insurance Company (today the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum), circa 1940s
W. W. Law Photographs, Item 1121-100_1232
Junior Corps Band for the Vance Allison Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post No. 2933, circa 1940s
W. W. Law Photographs, Item 1121-100_1233
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