Photograph
Infantry Combat Team Training
| 32nd Division Infantry Combat Team landing from LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) in a practice exercise. Soldiers are running down a ramp, then up a rocky beach from the landing craft. The number on the ship is "71." The ship is flying the American flag. Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time: "Infantrymen who landed at Saidor, New Guinea, run off LCI in exercise few weeks before actual landing." |
| Image ID: | 99998 |
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| Creation Date: | 11 08 1943 |
| Creator Name: | Doyle, Robert |
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| Collection Name: | Robert Doyle papers, 1935-1974, 1995 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | M99-114, box 8, roll 17, neg 1701 |
| Original Dimensions: | 2.375 x 2.375 inches |
| This image appears in the forward of the clipping book, Anybody Here From Wisconsin?, a reprint of the scrapbook kept by Robert Doyle's mother. Robert Doyle was a civilian war correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal during World War II, covering the experiences of Wisconsin troops in the 32nd "Red Arrow" Division, an infantry division of the United States Army National Guard. The "Red Arrow" Division consisted mainly of soldiers from Wisconsin and Michigan. |
| Armed Forces |
| Military uniforms |
| Soldiers |
| Transportation, Military |
| Warships |
| Weapons |
| World War, 1939-1945 |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Flags |
| Ocean |
| Shorelines |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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