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Knitting For British Soldiers

October 18, 2009

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5 million volunteers enrolled in the Women’s Voluntary Services for Civil Defense’s knitting for British servicemen project during WWII.

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Photos taken by Carl Mydans, 1939, London UK (via LIFE)

-N.

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