The Rock County, Minnesota honor roll, a monument to the youth who served in the armed forces.

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Quentin and Jackie Aanenson on the boardwalk at Atlantic City during their honeymoon in 1945.

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Quentin and Jackie Aanenson descend the church steps on their wedding day. They exchanged letters regularly while Quentin served overseas piloting a P-47 Thunderbolt.

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Al McIntosh was born in 1905 in Park River, North Dakota. His father was a Presbyterian minister and the family moved around a great deal during his childhood. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1928 and went to work for the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal, taking photographs as well . . .

Selections from "Selected Chaff: The wartime columns of Al McIntosh."

A woman listens to the radio in her boardinghouse room. January 1943. For those back home, the radio proved the best source for news on the war.

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Jackie Greer was born February 18, 1923 in northern Louisiana. Her father was a teacher and school principal. She spent a year at Monroe Louisiana Junior College, then attended Louisiana Tech in Ruston. In the summer of l941 after her second year of college, Greer's father was . . .

Portrait of Jackie Greer. She married pilot Quentin, who she wrote often during the war.

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Quentin Aanenson, the 5th of 6 children, was born on April 21, 1921, on a 160 acre farm five miles from Luverne. His grandparents had come to America from Norway and both of his parents grew up speaking Norwegian at home. He graduated from high school in 1939 attended the . . .

Luverne's Quentin Aanenson stands on the wing of his P-47 Thunderbolt, named for Jackie Greer, his future wife. France, 1944.

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Luverne's Quentin Aanenson at flight school in July 1943.

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Portrait of Luverne's Quentin Aanenson. May 1944. Aanenson flew a P-47 Thunderbolt during the war.

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Luverne's Quentin Aanenson, left, prepares for the next mission. August 3, 1944.

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Fighter pilot Quentin Aanenson recalls the first time he knew he'd "killed men."

Luverne's Quentin Aanenson and Jackie Greer on her porch in Baton Rouge. May, 1944.

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Signing up for sugar and food rationing in Taos, New Mexico. February 1943.

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