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| Date: | 04 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lillian Helfrecht raking her lawn with the help of her neighbor, six-year-old George Armstrong. George helped Mrs. Helfrecht with various chores becau... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men talking on a construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A pile of bricks is in the foreground alon... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses an oxy-acetylene torch to fit a copper tube in the production of an aircraft torpedo. He is wearing an International Harvester Compan... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Anthony R. Buzzelli opens an ammunition box with an axe for Marines battling on Iwo Jima. Another man on the right appears to be openin... |
| Date: | 07 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four people standing in a muddy excavated hole for a footing at the Ordnance Steel Foundry. The Foundry may have served as part of Interna... |
| Date: | 07 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men pouring and smoothing cement on the construction site of the Ordnance Steel Foundry Company. The Foundry may have served as part of International Harve... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns. |
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| Description: | A soldier hacks a path through a jungle in Panama with a machete while smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the gloved hands of a pair of surgeons as they begin to operate on a patient in Japan. One person is holding a scalpel over a portion of an exposed... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier at a base in Panama uses a cleaver to open a can of rhubarb sitting on a counter near a large pot. He is wearing a cap, a sleeveless shirt, and p... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Men working on a Marine Aircraft Group plane at Ulithi airport. One man is standing near the nose of the plan, looking inside. He is shirtless and wearing ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A young indigenous woman wearing a flower in her hair poses with an older woman who is balancing a basket on her head on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | Soldiers working on slit trench in the rain on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They all hail from Michigan. ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous man climbs a coconut palm to harvest coconuts on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). His feet are ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Twin soldiers, Corporal John Kellner (left) and Private First Class Bob Kellner (right) of Milwaukee get a drink at the lister bag, in the camp on Goodenou... |
| Date: | 11 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Harry Glass, Jr., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, gets a drink of water at the lister bag. A lister bag (also spelled lyster bag) is a devic... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rough Raider Squadron Laundry, serving 100 customers a day. Eight soldiers can be seen, some working, some watching, and one soldier c... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Mopping up after the bombardment of Cape Gloucester while the American cruiser returns to base are: (left to right, all shirtless) Seaman 2nd Class Dominic... |
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