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“American soldiers select French perfumes at the gift counter of the Seine Section post exchange in Paris (France) March 28, 1945.” Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images.
11 Monday Nov 2019
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“American soldiers select French perfumes at the gift counter of the Seine Section post exchange in Paris (France) March 28, 1945.” Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images.
12 Monday Nov 2018
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U.S. Sailors and Marines from the USS Iowa on shore leave shop for perfume in Bermuda, circa 1943. (Photo by Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
11 Saturday Nov 2017
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inNovember 11 is Veterans Day, and I’m marking the occasion with this World War II-era cover illustration from the Saturday Evening Post. This G.I. certainly seems to be enjoying the customer service he’s receiving at the perfume counter.
Illustration by John Newton Howitt (1885-1958) for the Saturday Evening Post, published January 17, 1924.