Personal Fave #4 Wait for Me, Daddy, 1940 Taken in New Westminster, this is probably the most iconic wartime photo to come out of Canada. It was featured in Life Magazine, Liberty, Time Magazine, Newsweek and innumerable other publications. Many years later, Chuck Davis interviewed the boy in the picture and wrote about it here. Source: Photo by Claud Detloff for the Daily Province, via Life Magazine, 21 October 1940
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Personal Fave #4

Wait for Me, Daddy, 1940

Taken in New Westminster, this is probably the most iconic wartime photo to come out of Canada. It was featured in Life Magazine, Liberty, Time Magazine, Newsweek and innumerable other publications.

Many years later, Chuck Davis interviewed the boy in the picture and wrote about it here.

Source: Photo by Claud Detloff for the Daily Province, via Life Magazine, 21 October 1940

Source: books.google.ca

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    Wait for Me, Daddy, 1940 Taken in New Westminster, this is probably the most iconic wartime photo to come out of Canada....
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    Had no idea this was Canadian, let alone shot in the lower mainland!
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    I love this picture; too cute…
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