The Lancaster YWCA took an active part with local Armed Forces personnel and their families. Here two servicemen get some refreshments from volunteers at the YWCA Canteen.
Looking toward South Queen Street, a view of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on a cobblestone Penn Square. Note the New Era on left of photo and Intelligencer Journal on right. same as photo 2-05-11-14.
Awaiting Father Zangari's first Mass at St. Anne's Catholic Church are Sisters M. Alphonsus, (formerly Rita Smith), M. Constantia, and M. Olivia, formerly Blanche G. Smith.
An outing at Old Poggy Creek, southeast Lancaster in the 1940's. Far right may be Richard Simms, later policeman. Center row in white trunks may be Mel Stewart of Green Street.
St. Paul's United Church of Christ at the corner of Duke and Orange, razed after merger with St. John's United Church of Christ. Site is now location of Steeple House Square.
"Rosie the Riveters" like Eleanor Flora helped in the war effort at Armstrong's Floor Plant in the 1940s. Taken in 1943 when Eleanor was 19. The picture was used as "Help Wanted" ad for Armstrong Floor Plant on Liberty Street and read "You Can Do It Too." Flora enlisted in the Navy in 1944 as a WAVE (Women Accepted as Volunteer Emergency Service) and was stationed at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. Because of her work at Armstrong, she was not required to take further training in aircraft repair. At Pensacola she served as an Aviation Metalsmith Mate and repaired PBY Catalinas, the patrol bombers that patrolled the coast. These planes were painted black for night patrol and were called "Black Cats." An example of one hangs in the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola.
