[Lieutenant Runkle and Lieutenant Long talking with unidentified child]

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Title

[Lieutenant Runkle and Lieutenant Long talking with unidentified child]

Description

Photograph of Lieutenant Runkle and Lieutenant Long, U.S. Army Air Forces, talking with an unidentified child, China-Burma-India Theater, circa 1940s. The inscription on verso notes that the servicemen are trying to trade chewing gum for the child's cigarette.

Inscription on verso: "Lt. Runkle and Lt. Long offer to trade Sonny Boy a stick of chewing gum for the cigarette intended for Mama - but Mama doesn't understand (Bu-Doong) and Sonny doesn't think he's too young to smoke."

Date

1940s circa

Bibliographic Citation

The William Orthman World War II Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

1991-07-17A_image_215_01
1991-07-17A_image_215_02