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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, boarding a Jeep at 148th General Hospital in Saipan. Hyland is wearing a striped jumpsuit and has her hair tied up... |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st... |
| Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Indigenous men stand by a tail section as they watch planes take off and land at the Kiriwina Airfield on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p... |
| Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Michigan soldiers loading bombs onto a trailer at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names, left to right,... |
| Date: | 11 01 1942 |
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| Description: | War correspondents, whose typewriters and cameras keep the world informed of action in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), live together in a large ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | View down line of indigenous men, from a village near the airstrip, helping soldiers carry equipment to a camp area along a trail. Two soldiers stand off t... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ... |
| Date: | 06 1945 |
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| Description: | Micronesian men, who put thatched roofs on buildings in the western Caroline Islands for United States forces, sit chatting with Robert J. Doyle, The Journ... |
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