Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police M.P.D.
1940 to 1949
Germany begins the invasion of Europe - Bismark Sunk - Pearl Harbor Attacked - The Holocaust - Iwo Jima - D-Day - Germany surrenders Hitler Kill's Himself - 2 Atomic Bombs on Japan - WAR ENDS ! - Republic of Ireland formed as Independent Nation -
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AMERICA IS AT WAR ! These must have been some really interesting years to have been in Washington D.C. There were so many countries involved in one way or another in the war D.C. must have been running active 24 x 7. From the emotions and activities of a War to Hollywood making their movies reflecting the war and it's war rooms ect., The everyday life of the 40's in Washington must have been one to see......
1940 to 1949
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1943 - Inspector Richard "Dick" H. Mansfield retired after 32 years on the force. A cartoonist and traffic safety speaker, Dick would draw cartoons and give "Chalk Talks" to school children about traffic safety, (MPD).
1948 - Harbor Precinct responded to an airplane crash that killed 55 passengers when an Eastern Airlines passenger plane collided with another plane over the Potomac River. A year later, the harbor Precinct would again be called upon to rescue passengers from a Capitol Airlines plane when it crash landed into the Potomac River in heavy fog , killing 4 of it's 23 passengers, (MPD).
1949 - Following a train hijacking in Martinsburg, West Virginia , in which 147 passengers were robbed at gunpoint and some pistol whipped; two teenage suspects forced the trains engineer to place the train on a siding. They escaped, stealing several cars along their route. Tips led D.C. Police officers to a pawn shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, where the two robbers
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