Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Male Papuan carriers help members of the 32nd Division construct a road through the jungle of New Guinea. |
Date: | 07 1942 |
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Description: | A patrol officer from the 14th Infantry, based in Fort Davis, Panama, follows his compass through the jungle. The patrol officer has a small cigarette in o... |
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Description: | A soldier hacks a path through a jungle in Panama with a machete while smoking a cigarette. |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry building a "wiki-up", or place to sleep while on patrol, in a jungle in Panama. One man has a cigarette in his mouth. |
Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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Description: | Three soldiers in a truck drive through mud on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Jungle foliage is in the back... |
Date: | 08 16 1943 |
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Description: | Private Clarence Charneski, Surgical Technician-Medical Detachment, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, takes an improvised outdoor shower under a bucket at a militar... |
Date: | 10 24 1943 |
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Description: | Robert Doyle's caption says it best, "The ol' swimmin' hole, South Pacific style. Every afternoon it is filled with shouting soldiers in their birthday sui... |
Date: | 12 05 1943 |
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Description: | Robert Doyle poses in his undershorts between Private Gerald Minkin of Ironwood, Michigan (left) and Private First Class Samuel "Slim" Lanham of Louisville... |
Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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Description: | At 8:30 am, military vehicles pour off of the LST (Landing Ship, Tank) and along the beach at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Doyle's ca... |
Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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Description: | Soldiers on a tank destroyer in the jungle at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A soldier in the foreground appears to be moving some bran... |
Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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Description: | Artillerymen of Battalion A are ready for an enemy attack in a gun pit, at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A knife is standing point dow... |
Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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Description: | An outdoor kitchen scene at the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Soldiers from the 121st Field Artillery Battalion are l... |
Date: | 01 23 1944 |
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Description: | Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Several soldiers can be are in th... |
Date: | 01 23 1944 |
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Description: | Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Many soldiers surround the jeep a... |
Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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Description: | High-ranking German Naval Officers arriving at the prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Allied soldiers are standing guard an... |
Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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Description: | An indigenous woman poses with NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific. She is wearing a flowered lava l... |
Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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Description: | Indigenous villagers pose with Robert Doyle (7th from left) and NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific.... |
Date: | 1943 |
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Description: | Soldiers in battle gear, holding rifles, marching in a long line across a wooden bridge. Across the water is a building on the shoreline with the jungle be... |
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: | 11 10 1942 |
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Description: | Without nails, wire or rope, indigenous men build a large structure for an American hospital unit headed by Major Stanley Hollenbeck of Milwaukee, Wisconsi... |
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