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."

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."