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Whitney-Made Valentine with Children

Date: 1920
Description: Valentine created using a "Whitney's Valentine Material" kit. The "folder" (card) has a boy in military uniform holding a rifle. He is kissing a girl on th...
Postcard

Camp Scene from High Rock

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Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of a camp scene. Tents are pitched in rows with roads in between. Soldiers are walking along the roads. Two sold...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Robert Doyle and Captain Money

Date: 11 05 1943
Description: Robert Doyle and Australian Captain William (Bill) A. Money, chat on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). In t...
Photograph

Task Force Headquarters Mess

Date: 01 18 1944
Description: Officers sit down together for a meal at the Task Force Headquarters Mess in the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). One so...
Photograph

Soldier with Muddy Boots Reading TIME Magazine

Date: 01 22 1944
Description: A soldier, Sergeant Robert Witzlsteiner of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reads TIME magazine with his very muddy boots propped on a box. His rifle is across...
Photograph

Three Men and a Jeep

Date: 1944
Description: Group portrait of Robert Doyle, wearing a hat and pants, sitting at the wheel of a jeep along with a man in the passenger seat. Another man is leaning agai...
Photograph

Robert Doyle Napping

Date: 1944
Description: Dick Hanley, of YANK Army Weekly magazine, snapped this photo of Robert Doyle taking a nap on the L-shaped desk in what appears to be a room used by...
Photograph

War Correspondent at His Typewriter

Date: 07 1943
Description: Robert Doyle types stories about the Red Arrow Division in his tent while seated on his cot. The tent sides are tied open. A crate serves as a typewriter s...
Photograph

Robert Doyle Interviews a Soldier

Date: 02 10 1943
Description: Robert Doyle interviews Private Floyd Flayter, (shirtless) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin at a training ground somewhere in Australia. A firearm is laying on the ...
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French PoW's Receiving Meals

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Description: French prisoners in the German PoW camp in Zossen, Prussia, with steaming bowls of soup.

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