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7th Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery

Date: 1863
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of soldiers, and at the top left and right corners, two camp scenes, of the Seventh Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery. ...
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Prisoners of War Washing Clothes

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr...
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Prisoners of War Cutting Bread

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Two German prisoners of war, at a prisoner of war camp, cutting rye bread. The food preparation area includes large quantities of bread on another table co...
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Soldiers Washing Feet

Date: 1942
Description: Three soldiers from the 14th Infantry are sitting on a bench and washing their feet in their helmets in a wood cabin with a screen to the outside. One of t...
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Soldier Cleaning Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Two soldiers sitting and talking in Panama as one of them is cleaning his weapons. One man is sitting on a bed holding a machete and cleaning it with a tow...
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Red Cross Field Director

Date: 07 17 1943
Description: Red Cross Field Director, G. Robert Mowerson of Ann Arbor, Michigan, works at his typewriter at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. A field telephone is ...
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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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Interior of Sad Shack

Date: 09 29 1943
Description: The interior of the "Sad Shack" at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Two men are standing and two men are sitting in chairs. Personal items such as por...
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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...
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Russian PoW's at a Religious Service

Date: 1914
Description: Russian prisoners in Zossen PoW camp attending a religious service.
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Cooking Tinned Meat

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Description: Pressure kettles being used to cook tinned meat. In the background a kettle is being unloaded.
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Meat to be Fed to Poor Civilians

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Description: Cooked tins are transferred to a hot room kept at 30 degrees (86 degree Fahrenheit). Here they are cleaned and sorted. Any tins with bulges are separated s...
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Tins Loaded for Shipping

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Description: Tins in trays that are being loaded for shipping.
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Soldiers Pack Tins for Shipment

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Description: Soldiers packing tins for shipment.
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De-Boning Meat

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Description: De-boning meat for goulash in the kitchen for the soldiers to consume.
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Meat is Pressure Cooked with Hot Air

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Description: When a vat is completely filled with tins it is placed inside of a larger vessel, sealed tightly, and the meat is pressure cooked with hot air.
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Meat Sliced Into Smaller Pieces

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Description: After de-boning the meat is sliced into smaller pieces.
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French PoW's at Rest and Sculpting

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Description: One can see from the image how prisoners are allowed to pursue their own interests.
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French Prisoner's Private Studio

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Description: A French prisoner, who is a sculptor, who has been given a private studio space to work on his art.

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