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#115 A boxcar from France’s “Merci Train,” loaded with gifts for Virginians, arrived in Richmond, 1949.

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#115 A boxcar from France’s “Merci Train,” loaded with gifts for Virginians, arrived in Richmond, 1949.

What Richmond, Virigina looked like in the 1940s Through Historic Photographs

#115 A boxcar from France’s “Merci Train,” loaded with gifts for Virginians, arrived in Richmond, 1949.

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←#114 The Freedom Train stopped in Richmond at Allen Avenue and West Broad Street, 1947.
#116 Gas shortages prompted the Retailers for Victory campaign to stage Richmond’s first “gasless parade” to promote the sale of war stamps, which would fund construction of the aircraft carrier Shangri-La, 1943.→

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