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Front Cover, WWII Marine Corps 'Service Album' Photograph Album, VMF-214 Collection, 1945

Front Cover, WWII Marine Corps 'Service Album' Photograph Album, VMF-214 Collection, 1945

The leather cover of a personal 'Service Album,' a commercially produced photo album purchased by a U.S. Marine to preserve wartime memories. Decorated with the Marine Corps Eagle, Globe, and Anchor emblem and an illustrated amphibious landing scene, this album is associated with Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-214 and dates to 1945, near the close of World War II in the Pacific. Project: 218393