This candid photograph, preserved in a 1949 photo album associated with General Jonathan M. Wainwright, shows a group of young women in matching floral swimsuits at a public swimming pool, likely participants in a synchronized swim exhibition or poolside pageant common to postwar American leisure culture. Images such as this, included alongside more formal military photographs, reflect the social and ceremonial appearances that accompanied the public life of a decorated general in the years following World War II. Project: 218338