Folders 1-10: 30 October 1943-3 November 1943,

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70,000 people at Camp Peary, 1,400 arrive in one day---all clothes stenciled “H.Recht”—gross pay $50; has worked in journalism, law and family furniture store; knows German, French and Yiddish; Address: Herman Recht, A.S., Plat. 1678, Area C-8, Camp Peary, Va.—75% of fellow sailors are married; HR is “almost 35” years old—barracks mates know that he is a lawyer; refers to request by Marian Anderson that the Daughters of the American Revolution suspend, for her concert, its segregated seating policy { In 1939 the DAR refused to let her sing in Constitution Hall); a military film shown on the base about “Jugoslavs” was not “unadulterated”

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