Registering for Selective Service, 1942
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- Bethel in 1941-1945 was still largely populated by Swedish-Americans like this welder from Minneapolis, reading a letter from relatives in Sweden that had been opened by German censors – All images courtesy of the Library of Congress
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- An April 1942 meeting of the Småland Society, immigrants from that province in Sweden
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- A soldier on leave has dinner with the Lindstrom family in Minneapolis
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- A defense worker at the Northern Pump Company in Minneapolis
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- Production scorecard at that same company, October 1942
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- The president of the draft board for Center City, Minnesota
Bethel at War 1914 - 2014 