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C-47 Returns

Date: 03 1945
Description: A C-47 bomber returns to North Airfield, Guam. This airfield had been operational only since early February. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee p...
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TAG Operations, WWII

Date: 03 1945
Description: TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the ...
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Ambulance Corps Van

Date: 1941
Description: Men and women standing with an International Metro used by Czechoslovakian Relief. An airplane is in the background. All four people are wearing coats and ...
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Soldiers with Truck and Airplane

Date: 1943
Description: Uniformed soldiers use a ladder to unload objects from a U.S. Army C-47 airplane labeled "Green Goon." An International truck appears in the foreground wi...
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Loading Navy Transport Plane

Date: 1944
Description: A man supervises the unloading of a US Navy R4D transport plane onto a truck with a star symbol painted on the driver door. Snow-capped mountains are in th...
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Group with Czechloslovak Relief Ambulance

Date: 1941
Description: A group of two men and two women stand near an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service with the Czechoslovakian Army ...
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Lieutenant and Hostesses with Ambulance

Date: 1941
Description: First Lieutenant K.J. Fogle is standing in the cab of an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service with the Czechoslova...
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Czechoslovak Relief Committee

Date: 1941
Description: A group of men from the Chicago Czechoslovak Relief Committee are standing against an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for...
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Czechoslovak Relief Committee

Date: 1941
Description: A group of men from the Chicago Czechoslovak Relief Committee are standing against an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for...
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Hostesses with International Ambulance

Date: 1941
Description: Ruth Ellison, TWA hostess, looks into an an International D-15-M (Metro) truck converted into an ambulance and sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service w...
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B-29 Bomber Landing

Date: 03 1945
Description: A B-29 bomber plane landing at North Field in Guam after its first fire raid on Tokyo. A tree is in the center foreground with three men sitting around it ...
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Soldiers Working on B-29 Bomber

Date: 03 1945
Description: Two men working on a B-29 bomber, just returned from its first fire raid on Tokyo. The men are on top of the plane, opening a hatch. They are both shirtles...
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Indigenous Men Watch Planes on Airfield

Date: 08 15 1943
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...
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Trucks and Plane at the Airfield

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: Trucks at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, wait while paratroopers prepare to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfie...
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B-24 Warplane Navigator

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Navigator Lieutenant Paul Seramur of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses in front of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane after the Alexishafen strike. The name ...
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Lae Airstrip

Date: 01 13 1944
Description: Military trucks, jeeps and planes at the Lae Airstrip, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Lae was a Japanese occupied airstrip until September 16, ...
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Airfield at Steeple Morden

Date: 08 1944
Description: Elevated view of the airfield at Royal Air Force station Steeple Morden, located 3.5 miles west of Royston, Hertfordshire, England. The 355th Fighter Group...

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