The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)

Infantrymen grab sleep where they can. Normandy, France, July 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-191444)

Bill Mauldin worked for Stars and Stripes during the war. His cartoons were viewed by GIs serving in Europe.

Source: Copyright 1945 by Bill Mauldin. Displayed courtesy of the William Mauldin Estate.

Jeroline Green was born and raised in Coffeyville, Kansas. After high school, she enrolled in junior college for a time, and in the summer of 1943, decided to visit a friend who was living in Sacramento. She arrived in August, intending to stay for a few weeks. Instead, she quickly . . .

Portrait of Walter Thompson and Jeroline Green.

Source: Walter Thompson

Japanese-American evacuees, under the watchful eye of U.S. soldiers, wait outside trains at Santa Anita Assembly Center. April 5, 1942.

Source: National Archives (WC-0780)

Aerial of downtown Sacramento, including the Capitol building, ca. 1940.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83-01-111)

Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, ca. 1940.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83/01/7288)

The dome of the State Capitol rises above a tree lined street in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83-01-10,436)

A boy delivers the Sacramento Bee by bicycle. Burt Wilson served as a Bee carrier during the early 40s.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83-01-10446)

Women workers stream out of the Southern Pacific Lines railroad shop in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83/01/11,180)

Sacramento's Walter Thompson, back row, far right, plays with the 4909th band. William Perkins also performed with the band.

Source: Walter Thompson

Group photograph of the 4909th Special Service Section. William Perkins, who would marry Barbara Covington, and Walter Thompson, who would marry Jeroline Green, performed with the band.

Source: William Perkins

Jeroline Green and Walter Thompson on their second date. Also at the table is Barbara Covington and her date.

Source: Walter Thompson

Walter “Mac” Thompson was born on September 10th, 1924 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. While a student at West Virginia State College-Charleston, in early November of 1943, he was drafted and for the first time in his life, came face to face with racial segregation. He was the acting corporal in charge . . .

Sacramento's Walter Thompson, on trombone, performs with the 4909th band. Thompson would marry Jeroline Green.

Source: Walter Thompson