{"id":1521,"date":"2026-11-02T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:15:13","slug":"potd-wwii-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/potd-wwii-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"POTD &#8211; WWII Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NIHS Photo Album (continued)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">151 young men and 21 young women from New Ipswich served in WWII. Hazel Moore Balch created a collection of their photos.  We are in the process of cataloging them into our database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poltrackpix.smugmug.com\/New-Ipswich-Historical-Society\/n-XV6k6C\/New-Ipswich-WWII-Veterans\/i-JnNDjRv\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-JnNDjRv\/0\/MZPc8zT5KfhHVP2XQRV3ktk6TdTn2gfg5bwCh8MPf\/M\/AarneLehtonen-M.jpg\" alt=\"Aarne Lehtonen\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aarne Lehtonen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poltrackpix.smugmug.com\/New-Ipswich-Historical-Society\/n-XV6k6C\/New-Ipswich-WWII-Veterans\/i-GhGQpWQ\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-GhGQpWQ\/0\/KHnjM6N4zwh7Vrs9fgMSMWtDhFHNwq5LQXKKPTS6f\/M\/ArviArthurKangas-M.jpg\" alt=\"Arvie Arthur Kangas with group\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Arvi Arthur Kangas, first row, second in from right side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions for you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photo was captioned Bill Thoms. However we did not have this in our original spreadsheet. If someone can identify it as Bill Thoms I&#8217;ll add a new ID number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poltrackpix.smugmug.com\/New-Ipswich-Historical-Society\/n-XV6k6C\/New-Ipswich-WWII-Veterans\/i-78C3CLM\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-78C3CLM\/0\/LFvw2c84NPvWdQ5J4L6LFbW7RWmh4XSndWCVPnN2X\/L\/BillThoms-L.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Thoms\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Captioned as Bill Thoms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photo of interest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photo was taken by George Leel in Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped.  The two sailors are unidentified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poltrackpix.smugmug.com\/New-Ipswich-Historical-Society\/n-XV6k6C\/New-Ipswich-WWII-Veterans\/i-HRDLkCF\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-HRDLkCF\/0\/NDbpJsNztFx9VF4jDwzLGDjbqB6Km3SWLDTGpvGwc\/M\/2021-12-10-0010-M.jpg\" alt=\"Red Cross Hospital\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Red Cross hospital, Hiroshima, Japan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__supports-newline wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1521\" style=\"font-size: 16px;padding: 15px 23px 15px 23px;margin: 0; margin-left: 10px;border-radius: 0px;border-width: 1px; background-color: #113AF5; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; margin-left: 0\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-comments-link\"><a href=https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/potd-wwii-veterans\/#comments>1 comment<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> on POTD &#8211; WWII Veterans<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWII veterans from New Ipswich, NH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collections"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/OkinawaCemetery.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}