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
An April 1942 meeting of the Småland Society, immigrants from that province in Sweden
A soldier on leave has dinner with the Lindstrom family in Minneapolis
A defense worker at the Northern Pump Company in Minneapolis
Production scorecard at that same company, October 1942
The president of the draft board for Center City, Minnesota