American Decades
Athletes in the Military
Joe DiMaggio and "Pee Wee" Reese in Uniform; "Bob Feller Taking Military Oath"; "Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr. Holding Trophy"
Photographs
Date: December 6, 1939; December 11, 1941; July 8, 1944
Source: Joe DiMaggio and Harold "Pee Wee" Reese in uniform before a Central Pacific Service Championship game. July 8, 1944. AP/Wide World Photos. Available online at http://www.apwideworld.com (accessed March 19, 2003); "Bob Feller Taking Military Oath." December 11, 1941. Corbis. Image no. BE049915. Available online at http://pro.corbis.com (accessed March 19, 2003); "Clarke Kinnick Jr. Holding Trophy." December 6, 1939. Corbis. Image no. U894609INP. Available online at http://pro.corbis.com (accessed March 19, 2003).
Joe Louis in Uniform
Poster
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1940's Sports Primary Sources
- Athletes in the Military
- Season of 1941: DiMaggio and Williams
- "73 to 0"
- Letter to Kenesaw M. Landis
- Basketball's Big Men
- Army vs. Notre Dame
- "Jackie Robinson With Ben Chapman"
- "Babe Didrikson Takes Off Her Mask"
- Sports and Television
- Fort Wayne Daisies: 1947 Yearbook
- Citation Wins the Belmont
- Bob Mathias Hurls the Discus in the Decathlon
- VeeckāAs in Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
- Robinson and LaMotta
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
