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Soldier Shoveling Mud Off Crawler Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The...
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Recording History

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Description: Journalist Cecil Brown, then with the Mutual Broadcasting Network, carrying the portable recorder that he used for interviewing while he was reporting on o...
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Soldiers at Slit Trench

Date: 08 18 1943
Description: Soldiers working on slit trench in the rain on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They all hail from Michigan. ...
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Soldier with His Pet Coati

Date: 08 18 1943
Description: Corporal Marcell Vanden Heuval, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, poses with his coati named "Speedy" perched on his shoulder. He was a cook at the military cam...
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Engineer Sawmill

Date: 08 22 1943
Description: The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ...
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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...
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Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
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Log Bridge Under Construction

Date: 1918
Description: View looking down log bridge which is in the process of being built by a group of soldiers. The bridge crosses over a gully. In the distance is a horse-dra...
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Teams of U.S. Army Engineer Corps

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy hill towards a team of U.S. Army Engineers traveling the Russian countryside in horse-drawn sleighs for the purpose of constructing a map o...
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Eduard Frankl Astride a Camel

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Description: Mr. Frankl as a war photographer with the Turkish Army.
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Military Veterinarian

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Description: Military veterinarian treating a horse on the Montenegrin battlefront, Montenegro and Albania.
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Austrian Military Veterinarian

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Description: Military veterinarian treating a horse on the Montenegrin battlefront.

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