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[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0300]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sgt. Elmer J. Morriss, U. S. Army, Ringling, Okla., triple amputee recovering at hospital in Temple, Texas."
Date: October 30, 1945
Creator: U.S. Signal Corps
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0322]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Elmer Morriss, Oklahoma war hero, is shown here with his mother, Mrs. E. L. Morriss of Ringling, left; his wife, Velma Lee, and his father, E. L. Morriss, on a recent visit they made in McCloskey General Hospital in Temple, Texas."
Date: October 3, 1945
Creator: U.S. Signal Corps
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0314]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Elmer J. Morriss of Ringling, Okla., works diligently at McCloskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas, on an almost completed hand-tooled, hand-laced leather bag for his wife, Velma Lee. Sgt. Morriss lost both legs, his right arm, the index finger on his left hand, and the sight of his right eye in the Battle of the Bulge in Europe."
Date: October 30, 1945
Creator: U.S. Signal Corps
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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