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Two Soldiers

Date: 08 29 1943
Description: Two Wisconsin cousins, (left) Corporal Englund Johnson, bomber waist gunner, of Park Falls and (right) Sergeant Donald Englund, airplane engine mechanic, o...
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Waiting for the Explosion

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Three war correspondents, (left to right), Bob Eunson of Associated Press, Ralph Boyce of YANK Army Weekly magazine and Robert Doyle of the Milwa...
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Pluto and Soldier

Date: 10 18 1943
Description: Mechanic Staff Sergeant Raymond Wagner of Boscobel, Wisconsin, poses shirtless while holding a cigarette and standing next to the nose art on his Consolida...
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Admiring Major's Insignia

Date: 11 21 1943
Description: Robert Doyle admires the golden oak leaf of Major Post's collar insignia. They are standing in front of the tail assembly of a plane similar to Post's. Maj...
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Soldier Seated on Nose of Warplane

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Armament Chief Sergeant Lloyd Cleary sits on the nose of a warplane with his feet on the propeller at an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present da...
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Three War Correspondents Napping

Date: 06 06 1944
Description: Three war correspondents napping on a cot in the Public Relations office at Earls Colne Airfield, England, on D-Day. Many newspaper articles are pinned on ...
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Wisconsin Troops Interviewed in Shinto Shrine

Date: 10 08 1945
Description: A shinto shrine near Tokyo serves as the starting point of a Wisconsin story as Robert J. Doyle (lower left), correspondent of the Journal, takes the names...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Lt. R.A. Weber and Mrs. Weber chose a h...

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