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Slideshow: Minnesota's Greatest Generation

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Virginia Mae Hope
Virginia Mae Hope, from Faribault, Minn., a pilot for the Women's Air Force Service, 1943.
Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
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Bomb shelter
Boys build a bomb shelter during the nuclear anxiety of the Cold War, 1952.
Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
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Virginia Mae Hope
Virginia Mae Hope, from Faribault, Minn., a pilot for the Women's Air Force Service, 1943.
Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
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Soldiers in Guam
Marines from St. Paul on Guam, 1944.
Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society