August 20, 2015

He smiles while the forest fire rages on

By C.E. Ryan

Photobooth. Handsome army soldier. Private Collection.

Photobooth. Smiling U.S. army soldier in “forest fire”. Private Collection.

Don’t sit like this and smile! Run!

Seriously…this backdrop looks ominous.

And seriously too, what an adorable smile on this handsome U.S. army soldier!

:)

~*~

It’s one of those days when I post and post! I found out who was behind the Chicago jazz band I posted back in May too. Very exciting!

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2015 at 5:55 pm and tagged with 1940s, army, soldier, USA, WWII and posted in Military, Photobooths. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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