This album page from the McAleer collection preserves informal snapshots of young servicemen during World War II, personalized with handwritten identifications. Among them, Jim Banks is noted as having been photographed in Miami in 1943 just after completing flight training, before departing for fighter training — and, poignantly, as 'Killed 1943.' Another man, Robinson, is similarly noted as killed in action in 1944. Personal album pages such as this humanize the statistics of wartime loss, preserving the names and faces of friends who did not return home. Project: 218185