Throwback Thursday: victory dogs
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:45am August 13 2015
Seventy years ago tomorrow, Japan announced its surrender in World War II, and, as documented in our October 1945 issue, the campus celebrated: “On the Old Campus the Army men had a picnic supper and hot dog roast. Later they danced and sang to a sixteen-piece orchestra. The USO supplied hostesses.”
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