Enlistees with color guard

Creator

Manitowoc (Wis.). Police Department

Date

• July 9, 1942

Summary

• In this picture taken Thursday, July 9, 1942, Army enlistees in civilian dress and carrying suitcases line up facing west on Washington Street across from the Manitowoc County Court House as they prepare to march to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway station to depart for Fort Sheridan. At the front of the line as an escort is the Manitowoc American Legion color guard, with the American flag and their post flag. Onlookers line the sidewalk beyond. The 79 men in this contingent were from Draft District 1 in Manitowoc and Draft District 2 in Two Rivers. They had been home on furlough after having been sworn into the Army in Milwaukee two weeks earlier. Rev. Cornelius H. Phipps, pastor of First Presbyterian Chuirch in Manitowoc, had addressed the group at the Court House just before this picture was taken. Buildings from left to right on the north side of the 800 block of Washington Street include: Hook's Place Tavern, Weber's Home Bakery, Scheurell Clothing Company, Lindstedt-Hoffman Co. Insurance, The Belle Shop, and the Manitowoc National Bank building with offices for the bank and Manitowoc Citizens Loan & Investment Company. Next to the bank building is the south side of Thelma's Fashion Shop which faced South Eighth Street. Across South Eighth Street, on the corner of South Eighth and Washington, is Huchthausen Hardware, and at the far east end of Washington Street are the towers of Rahr Malting Company.