EVB2945253: Long lines of C-47 transports loaded with paratroopers at an English airfield, Sept. 17, 1944. Operation Market Garden would drop 34,600 airborne troops near key bridges in the Netherlands. A BRIDGE TO FAR, was a 1977 film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1974 book about the disastrous battle. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2935384: Dickie Jones (b.1927) at left, and other voice actors on the C.B.S. radio show THE ALDRITCH FAMILY (1938-1953), a popular radio situation comedy (1939-1953). Jones was earlier cast as a child actor with Humphrey Bogart in BLACK LEGION, 1937. In the 1950s he would star in TV western series, BUFFALO BILL, JR / Bridgeman Images
EVB2935422: Interior view of NAACP branch office in Detroit, Michigan, showing NAACP membership drive posters picture an African American soldier. During World War II, African Americans spoke of a 'Double Victory,' one to win the war abroad and the second, for full civil rights at home / Bridgeman Images
EVB2935506: Albert Shanker (1928-1997), leader of the New York City teachers union, threatened to strike during contract negotiations, holding a report issued by mediators in 1965. His militancy was the basis of a joke in Woody Allen's 1973 movie, SLEEPER. Shanker, holds report issued by mediators in 1965 / Bridgeman Images