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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. Shown performing at the microphone, left to ...
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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. The band is shown from the balcony at the Se...
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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. Shown at a jam session are, left to right, P...
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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. Conferring, left to right, are Corp. Peter T...
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Pilot Trainer with Student

Date: 01 03 1945
Description: An ambulatory trainer which permits blind flying by instrument instruction by the Civil Air Patrol. Capt. E.D. Stanley is giving instructions given by tele...
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Abandoned Army Shooting Range

Date: 08 07 1947
Description: Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground.
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Truax Field Barracks

Date: 08 06 1947
Description: Rows of barracks at Truax Field.
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Aerial Photographs of Camp Douglas

Date: 04 27 1949
Description: Camp Douglas with Volk Field in the background.
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U.S. Naval Center

Date: 08 10 1949
Description: Exterior view of the U.S. Naval Training Center at 1046 East Washington Avenue. The Four Lakes Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps will be using the building fo...
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Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps Dinner

Date: 12 29 1949
Description: Group portrait of people at the head table at a banquet held at the Naval Reserve Training Center, 1046 E. Washington Ave. L to R front row: Mildred Norg (...
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Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 20 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin ROTC marching units moving south down South Carroll street during a parade commemorating Armed Forces Day. The Episcopal cathedral ...
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Madison Naval Reserve Unit

Date: 03 27 1951
Description: Elevated view of Madison's Organized Surface Division 9-212, naval reserves, being inspected at the naval reserve training center, located at 1046 East Was...
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Madison Naval Reserve Surface Division

Date: 08 31 1954
Description: Chief Boilertender Marvin Severson (left) and Seaman Apprentice Malcolm Astin raise the colors at the Madison Naval Reserve Surface Division at the Naval R...
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Madison Naval Reserve Surface Division

Date: 08 31 1954
Description: Members of the Madison Naval Reserve Surface Division watch a training movie at the Naval Reserve Training Center at 1046 East Washington Avenue. From left...
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Madison Naval Reserve Surface Division

Date: 08 31 1954
Description: Naval reservists Don Lunde, Don Borland, and Richard Olson, left to right, all radarmen, man a combat information center at the Naval Reserve Training Cent...
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Madison Naval Reserve Surface Division

Date: 08 31 1954
Description: Bob Bell (left) uses a soldering iron in the electronics workshop at the Naval Reserve Training Center at 1046 East Washington Avenue in Madison. Looking o...

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