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Arrival of "Woodrush"

Date: 1949
Description: View from dock of the U.S. Coast Guard ship "Woodrush" arriving at the La Pointe dock to clear ice. Two trucks are on the dock, one with a piano.
Photograph

War Movie Advertisement

Date: 07 1942
Description: Photographic copy of an advertisement featuring two film strips with scenes from the movies "The Strong Shall be Free" and "The Marines Have Landed." The m...
Photograph

Dicky Chapelle on Command Ship in Vietnam

Date: 1964
Description: On the top deck of the Vietnamese Navy's River Assault Group 23 command ship, on the Manhtit River, central Vietnam (vicinity Vinh Long), the "National Geo...
Photograph

Dicky Chapelle on Command Ship in Vietnam

Date: 1964
Description: On the top deck of the Vietnamese Navy's River Assault Group 23 command ship, on the Manhtit River, central Vietnam (vicinity Vinh Long), the "National Geo...
Print

Hamburg Landing

Date: 05 31 1862
Description: Engraved view of the Commisary [sic] depot of Major-General Halleck's army at Hamburg Landing.
Book or Pamphlet

The Gun Boat Fleet

Date: 04 05 1862
Description: Engraved illustration for the story titled: "The Fight at Island No. 10". The view from the deck of a boat looks out at the approaching gun boats coming do...
Photograph

USS Franklin Crew at Show

Date: 03 1945
Description: Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin...
Print

Pittsburg Landing, Battle of Shiloh

Date: 1887
Description: Engraving of Pittsburg Landing taken from a photograph a few days after the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee), which occurred on April 6-7, 1862. The image sho...
Print

General Jeep, Label

Date: 09 20 1943
Description: Drawing submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "A Sturdy, Timely Toy For Your Youngster. General Jeep." Features a drawing of four...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Pope's Army Tandem

Date: 02 1896
Description: Engraved image of a Pope's Army Tandem bicycle outfitted with skis, two sleep rolls, a rifle, and two hand guns.
Photograph

"Naughty Blue Eyes"

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: The crew of the "Naughty Blue Eyes" poses in front of their warplane, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, after the Alexishafen mission. The nose art of a littl...
Photograph

"Windy City Kitty"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

"Yank's Delight"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Elevated view of three soldiers working on the engine of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane h...
Photograph

"Hot-To-Go"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: A soldier sits in a bulldozer parked under the nose of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Another man i...
Photograph

"Open Date"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: A pilot peers out of the window of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane has nose art depicting ...
Photograph

"Gone"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: A warplane with nose art depicting a reclining woman in the "pin-up style" with the text, "Gone," at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day ...
Photograph

Warplane Nose Art

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: A warplane with nose art depicting a flying woman in the "pin-up style," at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). She is...
Photograph

C-47 Formation Leaving Saidor

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: Aerial view over wing of formation of Douglas C-47 Skytrain cargo and troop transport planes leaves Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Robe...
Photograph

Church Service in Roundhouse

Date: 10 08 1944
Description: Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us...

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