Grace and son Dagmar.

ID: 941 ~ Source: Japan: Family Photographs, Dagmar as a Baby, Fred and Grace; November 1946- December 1947; Grace F. Thorpe Collection, Folder 24-28; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
 ~ Creator: National Museum of American Indian. ~ Date: Ca. November 1946-December 1947
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This is a picture of Grace and her son Paul shortly after his birth. Paul passed away in a car crash as a teenager.

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By Grace Thorpe
"Well then after I got out of the service I was discharged from the WAC in Manilla, and I took a War Department Job in Tokyo. That’s when the occupation had just started there. As a matter of fact, I was in the first plane of women going into Japan.…