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Preservica - 2022 highlights & momentum looking ahead

Preservica

Preserving our digital memory is the backbone of how we educate ourselves, advocate for change, and support each other and our institutions for future generations to come. Collections Manager at the Military Women’s Memorial , Amy Poe, faced a wide range of challenges in making their collections easily accessible and secure online.

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Go for Broke: The 442nd Infantry Regiment

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In Hawaii–where many of the members of the 442nd would later originate from–the military imposed martial law, including curfews and blackouts, as concentration camps were not practical with the large population of people of Japanese ancestry. The 442nd began their training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi in April 1943. Photographer: Pfc.

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Cartographic Records Relating to African American History

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It was intended to provide a temporary home for freedpersons while they obtained the basic education and vocational skills necessary to obtain work and become self -sufficient. Mason’s Island was used as a training camp for African American soldiers in 1863 and became the site of a camp to house formerly enslaves persons in 1864.

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How the U.S. Army Served its Movie-Mad GIs during World War II

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The military went to tremendous lengths to supply a steady diet of fiction and nonfiction film to its troops with great speed. Inside an army film library. Films arrived to bases worldwide by boat, plane, train, automobile, motorcycle, and even camel caravan and Arctic dog sled. Still from Movies at War. By war’s end, the U.S.