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| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Artillerymen of Battalion A are ready for an enemy attack in a gun pit, at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A knife is standing point dow... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards a camouflaged log blockhouse constructed during the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a f... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View through trees and branches of a log blockhouse fortification used by the Allied forces. The fortification is in a heavily forested area and camouflage... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A log blockhouse under construction to support the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a forested area covered in sn... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Trenches constructed for American forces to defend against the Bolshevik "Red" forces. In the background are possibly barracks and other buildings for the ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of two soldiers standing outside a blockhouse fortification. One soldier is wearing heavy wool furs and is armed with a rifle, and the oth... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow and through barbed wire fence towards a timber constructed blockhouse. More buildings and a forested area are in the far background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of three soldiers standing in front of a blockhouse that has a tall wooden fence along the exterior. The man on the left is armed with a r... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards four soldiers standing near brush piles. Two men standing in the center, and two men stand behind the brush, defending the road to... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four soldiers stand outside a blockhouse in the snow. One man stands on the left side of the building, the other three men stand on the right. The building... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a machine gun emplacement and its three man crew on the roof of a shed. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers installing barbed wire as a defense against Bolshevik forces. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | An eight-man blockhouse fortification in the snow, with a built-up wall of logs surrounding it. Soldiers inside the fortification are looking out of some o... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A dugout under construction, showing the timber frame and planks of wood over the top. On the left of the dugout is a large pile of timbers covered with sn... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A large log blockhouse fortification at Verst 581. This fortification was constructed when the 310th United States Army Engineer Corps was deployed as a pa... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A large concrete blockhouse fortification at Verst 581 with a concrete outhouse next to it on the right. An armed solder wearing winter clothing stands be... |
| Date: | 10 29 1944 |
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| Description: | A German warning sign nailed to a tree trunk. Just beyond the sign are dragon's teeth, concrete pyramids put in to stop tanks, on the Siegfried Line, a lin... |
| Date: | 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle emerges from a captured Japanese pillbox at Buna, New Guinea, (present day Papua New Guinea). The pillbox is built of dirt, logs and foliage. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A log constructed blockhouse for machine gun emplacement surrounded by trees. In front of the fortification are four men posed standing. They are possibly ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a blockhouse constructed out of logs and camouflaged by attaching pine tree branches on and around the fortification. This particular fort... |
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