American Red Cross workers with auction winners at the Tinian Town Club on Tinian in October 1945

Gift of David Lawrence, from the collection of the National World War II Museum
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American Red Cross workers cleaning U.S. servicemen's finger nails, cutting their hair, and reading a man's palms inside the Tinian Town Club, an enlisted men's club operated by the American Red Cross. "Tinian Oct '45. We had an auction one night and some of the things we auctioned off were a haircut given by one of the girls (Betty Bond), a fortune told by [remaining caption is illegible]." October 1945

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Photographs, postcards and other documents from the American Red Cross service of Norma Force (later Lawrence), who served on Tinian and Guam.
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Tinian
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Fortune telling--Tinian
Canteens (Facilities)--Tinian
Manicuring--Tinian