Names: United States. Navy and Medicke, Winnie / Date: 1946 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Winnie Medicke sets up camp outside Port Hueneme in order to have first chance at purchasing Quonset Huts and other surplus army and navy supplies such as tentage, steel bunks, electrical saws, bridge-building equipment, pumps and an air-raid warning siren. More than 1000 veterans with priority certificates showed up for the sale. The huts cost between $230 and $288 depending on the number of windows.
Date:: July 15, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives