Target Practice

Hopefully the flu shot you received this winter was a little less dramatic than the immunization — complete with targets on each arm — administered to Cpl. Paul “Tiny” Evensen at the Overseas Replacement Depot in Greensboro in 1944.

From The ORD News, September 14, 1944.
[Update, January 2015. This newspaper can be viewed online in the Greensboro Historical Newspapers collection, hosted by UNC-Greensboro.]

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