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Chinese National Marines Training
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Chinese National marine crawls on his stomach beneath barbed wire in an infiltration training course in Formosa. Another man is on the right. The course includes live machine gun fire and mortar fire.
1959
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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1942
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1955
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1950
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Dickey Chapelle at Operation Inland Seas
July 1959
Dickey Chapelle taking photographs on the beach in Milwaukee during Operation Inland Seas. A Navy ship is on Lake Michigan in the background on the left. Along the shoreline are marines with anothe...
