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- 1942-07-03
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Mrs. R.H. Pugh, left, purchased a war bond from Esther (Mrs.Clinton) Beal at the Rhodes Bro. annex on July 3, 1942. Mrs. Pugh was currently residing in Tacoma. On December 7th, she had been living with her husband, an 27 year veteran of the Army, in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks. She witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Lying on the counter in the background between the two women is a piece of a Japanese plane that she saw shot down during the raid. (T. Times 7/6/1942, pg. 2)
War bonds & funds; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects of war--Tacoma; Beal, Esther;