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Best Wishes to You in the Service

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with a military theme. The card has a red, white, blue and embossed border. In the center is a "V" made of a red, white and blue ribbon on the...
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A Christmas Wish

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground. Four United States warplanes fly overhead and buildings with an American flag appear in the back...
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Season's Greetings

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card for the 42d Rainbow Division. On a light green background is an illustration at an angle of a soldier, a church and a red, yellow and blue rai...
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Season's Greetings, Let's Stamp Out the Dictators!

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with a 10¢ War Stamp Album glued inside. The front of the card shows Uncle Sam's large shoe kicking Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito into space....
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Olive Brooks, Division Engineer in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive...
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Black Out Curtains

Date: 1942
Description: Publicity photograph of a woman hanging blackout curtains, with the assistance of her young daughter. The photograph was taken to provide illustration for ...
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Patriotism Starts Early

Date: 1942
Description: World War II permeated every aspect of life in America during World War II, and nothing was wasted that could contribute to the war effort. Here a young b...
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Ernest G. Fischer

Date: 1942
Description: Informal portrait of Association Press correspondent Ernest G. Fischer while he was held at Bad Nauheim during World War II. Fischer's papers are part of t...
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Soldier with Submachine Gun

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier from the 14th Infantry points a submachine gun at the camera. He is laying on his stomach with tall grass around him. He is wearing fatigues and ...
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Soldier Stacking Ammunition

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier stacks ammunition for a coastal gun in Panama near a stone wall. The soldier is being handed a case of ammunition. He is wearing a helmet and pan...
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Soldiers in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: View from behind towards two soldiers lying on a hill among shrubs overlooking a hilly landscape with a submachine gun. The soldiers are wearing fatigues a...
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Soldiers Running with Machine Gun

Date: 1942
Description: A machine gun crew running with their .30 machine gun. Two men in the foreground are wearing pants and helmets but no shirts, and are carrying a machine gu...
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Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
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Soldiers During Barbed Wire Training

Date: 1942
Description: Two men posing during a training exercise on cutting barbed wire at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama. The men are on their stomachs crawling thro...
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Soldiers Cutting Barbed Wire

Date: 1942
Description: Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac...
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Soldier on Obstacle Course

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier from the 14th Infantry balancing on an obstacle course at Fort Davis, in Panama. The soldier is balancing on a wooden log, and is wearing a sleev...
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Soldiers Training on Obstacle Course

Date: 1942
Description: Two men from the 14th Infantry are running over logs on an obstacle course at Fort Davis, in Panama. One man is wearing a jumpsuit and the other man is wea...
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Soldiers Washing Feet

Date: 1942
Description: Three soldiers from the 14th Infantry are sitting on a bench and washing their feet in their helmets in a wood cabin with a screen to the outside. One of t...
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Colonel with Soldiers in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: Colonel O'Donnel, a commanding officer for the 14th Infantry, posing with two other soldiers. The three men are outside and there is an American flag behin...
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Panama Camp Construction Workers

Date: 1942
Description: The camp construction executive and workers gather to pose for a group portrait in Panama. The executive is sitting in a chair and the workers are gathered...

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