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| Date: | 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Men and women stand on either side of a street to watch an International truck used as a float for the Naval Air Tech Training Center as part of a Navy Day... |
| Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers from International Harvester's McCormick Works line up on a stage to receive the Army-Navy "E" award, given to manufacturing plants achievi... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the southeast side of the General Office building of International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. The building has an American flag... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | View of entrance and headquarters or administration building at a Marine Corps base, possibly Camp Elliot. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Helmuth Strobush and his son Jerry haul scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering farm wagon. The tractor is parked near a co-op service... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men with horses, wagons, cars and trucks are parked alongside railroad tracks near a large scrap metal pile. The men are participating in a wartime scrap d... |
| Date: | 04 16 1942 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil sits at a desk surrounded by members of the Wisconsin Salvage Committee. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A high school band marches down a street during MacArthur Week, a state sponsored scrap drive effort. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of a Nazi Youth camp found by Sigurd Olson during his travels in Germany, either late in 1945 or early in 1946. |
| Date: | 04 10 1952 |
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| Description: | Major William E. Neidner, (left) a member of the staff of the senior Army instructor of the Wisconsin National Guard, presenting the Bronze Star Medal to L... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A street scene in Berlin that shows the damage caused by wartime bombing. A banner or billboard on the damaged building on the right is advertising a film ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Colonel O'Donnel, a commanding officer for the 14th Infantry, posing with two other soldiers. The three men are outside and there is an American flag behin... |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | A crowd of civilians attending a Nazi rally in Danzig. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 08 19 1943 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers inspect a knife at Kiriwina Beach Camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They are standing in ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Austin Henry of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses with an indigenous man in front of the medical tent at the military camp on Woodlark Island, in the Solom... |
| Date: | 11 08 1943 |
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| Description: | 32nd Division Infantry Combat Team landing from LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) in a practice exercise. Soldiers are running down a ramp, then up a rocky beac... |
| Date: | 09 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Rough and tough Wisconsin rangers, who helped storm Normandy beach... |
| Date: | 05 21 1961 |
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| Description: | The Madison chapter of the Disabled American Veterans presents a 50-star flag in honor of John Parrish, center, a member of the newly built Mt. Zion Church... |
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