A wartime scrapbook page preserving hometown newspaper coverage of two Bakersfield, California servicemen: Marine 1st Lt. Edward P. McAleer, a Corsair fighter pilot credited with a dozen strikes against Japanese positions in the Marshall Islands, and Navy Ensign Pat Curran, a former local athlete serving as a pilot in Alaska. Such clippings, saved by families on the home front, reflect the pride and anxiety with which communities followed their sons through the Second World War. Project: 218306