Post-Dispatch photos: Monday, December 05, 2011
Date: 12/5/2011 Album ID: 1373426
Photos by Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photographs by staff photographers
Walter Lewis Hampton was a boatswains mate 2nd class, killed on the U.S.S. Arizona when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. His and many military personnel files salvaged from the sunken wreckage in 1942 ended up at a storage center in New York before being moved to the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis with the rest of the Navy personnel files in 1956. Preservationists are are still touching up the paperwork found among the records, some to be shown at a special event at the National Archives and Records Administration.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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During an interview with the Post-Dispatch, Karin Whorton of Maryland Heights presents documents that she has collected over the last several years as she tries to prove her U.S. citizenship Friday, Dec. 1, 2011. Whorton, 65, was the daughter of an Austrian World War II war bride. Her mother brought her to the United States when she was 16 months old.

(MAKE SURE TO REFERENCE THAT THIS WAS DURING A P-D INTERVIEW)
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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An Uplands Park police department SUV outfitted with radar photo enforcement equipment to ticket speeders operates along Natural Bridge Road in Uplands Park on Friday December 2, 2011.  The city started deploying the SUV a couple of weeks ago and is issuing warnings for the first 30 days to drivers who are caught speeding.  When the city begins issuing tickets the fine will be $100.00.
Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Blues left wing David Perron (left) flips the puck into the net as Chicago goaltender Ray Emery is screened by his own defenseman, Steve Montador (5) in first period action during a game between the St. Louis Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo.
Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.com
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