Tom Blakey at home in Houston in paratrooper dress uniform
Gift of Tom Blakey, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Thomas 'Tom' Blakey at home in Houston, Texas during furlough after completing jump school [at Fort Benning]. He is wearing his paratrooper dress uniform. The image appears to have been clipped from a larger photograph. Circa 1943
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Items from the service of Tom Blakey, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division who jumped into Normandy early D-Day morning.
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Houston
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29.750
Longitude:
-95.350
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Paratroopers--American--United States
Military uniforms--American--United States