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No date; likely 1945
Typewritten note attached to the back of the photograph, "Public Relations Office, 1380th AAF BU, NAD, ATC, Presque Isle, Maine. "Traveling USO troupes frequently visit evacuees at the Air Transport Command's North Atlantic Division evacuation hospital at Presque Isle, Me. Here Long Pin Soo, a magician with an overseas troupe, performs a card trick for Pvt. Raymond C. Kennedy as Lucille Johnson plays the guitar, and Stubby Kaye makes a few humorous remarks. Stubby, emcee with the USO outfit, tips the scales at a mere 300 pounds. An employee of the Arthur A. Crafts Co., Boston, Pvt. Kennedy was inducted into the Infantry on June 10, 1944. He was wounded in Germany and was flown from a general hospital in Paris in a C-54 transport plane of the SNOWBALL fleet to Presque Isle. His wife, Mrs. R.C. Kennedy, lives a 26 Baker Street, West Roxbury, Mass. -30-"
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
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