[Due to paper rationing for election publicity, communist candidate Leon Maurais chalked onto a street in his political district during first postwar elections, France]

Gingerbread Houses: Mansion of J. W. Stoddard in onetime boom mining town of Silver City, Idaho

Loan company billboard displays an ironic question high over Johnstown where one out of six is unemployed

Young smokers cadge from every passing soldier. U.S. cigarets have become prime currency in Italy, may bring the equivalent of $1 to $2 a package in trade or barter

Four marines recover the body of a comrade under fire. On the right: French photographer Catherine Leroy , who had flown in on a supply helicopter

Home of sharecropper Lonnie Fair in Mississippi Delta.

[Soldier embracing his girlfriend while saying goodbye in Pennsylvania station before returning to duty after a brief furlough]

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