WWII
In Hastings
Below are images that accompany the Museum’s bus tour.
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- Stretch of homes built in WWII, located on 4th street and Elm Ave.
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- Nebraska Congressman Carl Curtis
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- Nebraska Senator George William Norris
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- Maxon Construction Offices
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- Sign Painter – All Visitors must obtain visitor’s badge and log in at office before going…
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- Sioux Indians, November 26, 1942, who worked at the NAD and lived in a tent camp north of the Maxon Gate.
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- Remains of buildings after the Lake Denmark explosion.
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- Newspaper headline after the Lake Denmark explosion. It reads: Munitions Blast Damage at least $93,000000; Ten known dead, 25 missing, hundreds injured; many are homeless; shells still exploding.
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- Example of an electric train engine used on the depot grounds.
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- Woman working in the rocket production building.
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- Two ordnance workers weighing 8in/55 caliber bag charges to their proper weight. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy
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- Black Men at Work on the Load Line
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- Fist Aid station located in the 20mm production building
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- Fist Aid station located in the 20mm production building
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- Sign inside cubical of the 40mm production building
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- Production Building Interior
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- Exterior of the 40mm production area’s cafeteria.
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- Lunch line in the cafeteria.
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- Line at lunch in the cafeteria. The sign on the back wall reads: “Food is exceptionally important in the war effort and must not be wasted. All men are directed to take all the food they want and eat all the take. There is not excuse for food waste. Men wasting food will be subject to disciplinary action.”
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- Men eating in a cafeteria.
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- Men eating in a cafeteria.
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- Showers located in the locker rooms of the cafeteria building.
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- Hand washing stations in the cafeteria
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- Woman cutting our silk bags using a die cutter
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- 3 women sewing
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- Interior of storage bunker with live ammunition
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- Enlisted Sailors loading ammo into bunker
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- Transfer Station
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- Men with boxes
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- The remains of a cafeteria one-half mile away after the transfer station explosion on September 15, 1944. The building was ripped to shreds from the force of the blast.
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- These are the twisted remains of a railroad box car following the September 15, 1944 explosion at the south transfer station.
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- Men fighting the fire after the explosion of the transfer station in September of 1944.
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- The crater left behind after the transfer station explosion in September of 1944.
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- Gamble’s Store in Downtown Hastings after the April Explosion at the Bomb and Mine production area. All of the windows had been blown out.
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- Injured man from the April 1944 explosion at the Bomb and Mine production area.
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- Black Enlisted Soldiers
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- German evangelical Salem Congregational Church used for multiple denominational services.
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- Aerial view of the administrative campus (today CCC) looking south east
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- Barracks for black enlisted sailors
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- Interior of the barracks for black enlisted sailors
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- Electric trains entering the locomotive repair shop at the depot. It became the CCC Gosper building housing desil technology programs, but it was demolished in 2010.
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- Aerial view of the administrative campus (Today CCC) looking east.
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- Powder & Chemical Quality Testing Building. This building no longer exist. It was located where the CCC Dawson building is today.
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- Windswept village looking west. This area was housing for white enlisted personnel. It once contained 32 homes.
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- Officers Club Building was one of the largest building on the grounds. It featured a swimming pool, lounge, and restaurant-all maintained by Navy personnel.
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- Library for white enlisted men.
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- library for black enlisted men
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- South side of the Marine Barracks. Today it is the Platte Building
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- Civilian Conservation Core camp barracks originally used to house construction workers, later used to house African American families
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- Civilian Conservation Core camp barracks originally used to house construction workers, later used to house African American families
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- The main security gate located on Highway 6.
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- Spencer Park Housing
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- Interior Bedroom at Spencer Park
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- Interior kitchen at Spencer Park
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- Spencer Park School
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- Spencer Park Students
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- Trailer Park used as housing during WWII. This was located at the old fair grounds which is the present day Hastings Senior High School.
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- Trailer homes
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- 2nd street, Downtown Hastings. Photo courtesy of the Hastings Tribune
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- 2nd Street Downtown Hastings during 1944-45. Photo courtesy of the Hastings Tribune.
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- Downtown Hastings on 1st Street
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- The Apex Tavern and Cabin in the Sky Café in the 1940s
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- Junior hostesses at the all white Service Center on 2nd Street provided entertainment for the thousands of soldiers, sailors, and Marines. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy
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- Snack-bar at the all white Service Center on 2nd Street was staffed by volunteer workers who served thousands of sandwiches and other light fare to hungry soldiers, sailors, and Marines. Photo courtesy of the Hastings Tribune
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- The dance celebrating the opening of the Colored Service Center on First Street. Photo courtesy of the Hastings Tribune.
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- Black women were brought in from Lincoln and Omaha for a beauty pageant as entertainment for black enlisted sailors. They were known as WooHoo Girls.
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- Dance put on by the Navy for the black enlisted soldiers
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- Winter Garden where dances were held
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- A ceremony for the Dutton-Lainson company when it earned the Army-Navy E award for excellence of production of war material. Only 20% of companies involved in war-production were so recognized. Photo courtesy of Hal Lainson
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- Stock-pile of 40mm brass cartridges left at the NAD after WWII. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy
All images not otherwise marked are courtesy of the Adams County Historical Society.
