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"Best picture show in town, a lot of Austin people will tell you, is in the windows of the Dacy shoe store, 610 Congress Avenue. There the photos of more than 300 Austin youth in the armed services are on display. Spectators crowd around the windows, often three deep, to spot the boys they know."
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Among those Austin High school students who joined the service were the five sons of Mrs. Imogene Grumbles. Various articles in the local newspaper followed the brothers' military careers. |
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An elaborate certificate commemorating the military service of Jesse Willie Johnson carried the admonition to "Remember Pearl Harbor." According to local newspaper accounts of December 8, 1941, "recruiting offices were jammed full of men" as young Austinites reacted to the news of Japan's attack on the United States in the Pacific. |
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The local U.S. Navy Recruiting Station was located in the Old Federal Building on West Sixth Street. Known as the O. Henry Hall today, the building is part of the University of Texas System. |
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Austin City Councilman Oswald Wolf maintained his council seat while serving with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific arena. Ads such as this one, appearing in the local newspaper on March 22, 1943, helped carry out a successful re-election campaign. |
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| "An American-Statesman employee�recalls the nightly visits of Mayor Tom Miller to the newspaper building, then at Colorado and Seventh streets. The Millers' son had been taken prisoner by the Germans, and Mrs. Miller would send her husband to scan the latest war news for any indication of their son's status. Sleep reportedly would not come to them until he completed his assignment and returned home." |
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