Ann's photos are mostly from 1940 - 1941. World War II was entering it's
third year in Europe and fifth year in China - although the Japanese
occupation of Manchuria was already a decade old.
The US was not yet really at war in 1941, although Germany's U-boat
campaign had arrived at our Atlantic coastline. The U.S. Coast Guard was
already fighting an undeclared war; the U.S. Navy and the other services
were not yet actively engaged.
It's not until the end of 1941 that Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and
Germany's declaration of war on the U.S. brought the United States into
the war as an actively declared belligerent.
And since by that time, Germany had already invaded the Soviet Union,
the U.S. and the Soviets became, if somewhat reluctantly, allies for the
duration.
From: Boris Liberman
Fortunately, USA and Soviet Union were never at war between each other.
The hot war you're referring to, Steve, is WWII. But thence USA and SU
fought the common enemy...
Boris
On 1/4/2011 5:00 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
> Actually, during the early 40's it was a pretty hot war. I hadn't
> really thought of that when I first viewed these (they look better on
> a monitor than a cell phone) but this was wartime America. This is
> wonderful collection, Ann. Old photographs are precious things.
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Boris Liberman<bori...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1/4/2011 5:44 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh what the hell --
>>> have a go at the whole gallery - kinda fun.
>>>
>>>
>>>
http://annsan.smugmug.com/Friends-and-Family/Blackstone-family-vintage/8871062_7gR8M
>>
>> That's way cool, Ann! Despite all the stupidity of the cold war and such,
>> the times were pretty much the same on both sides of the big pond... Your
>> photos surely remind me of photos in our family album...
>>
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