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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | K.M. Fores attending to paperwork at the Rogers Truck & Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Mr. Fores was filling in for his son, Lie... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Corporal William (Bill) Fenton lays badly wounded, waiting for medical treatment. There is a note on his shirt that reads "urgent." Fenton survived the inj... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Sgt. Vincent Brencick, USMC, IV Division, commander and sole survivor of the crew of the General Sherman tank Capetown, set afire by a mine. Sgt. Br... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men, natives of the Solomon Islands, standing on a U.S. Marine Corps truck made by International Harvester. Some of the men are holding rifles. |
| Date: | 01 13 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of new female factory workers receiving their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for making ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of recently hired factory female workers receive their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Workers on an assembly line at an International Harvester factory. The original caption reads: "assembling 57mm gun carriages." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Workers drilling on a section of a military airplane cowling at an International Harvester factory. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne... |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling the steering gear on a military truck at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | War hero Capt. Richard I. Bong, of Poplar, Wisconsin, credited with knocking out 21 Japanese planes in the South Pacific, shaking hands with Governor Walte... |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Woman buying a war bond from Santa Claus, who was helping other Manchester employees wait on crowds of purchasers at the bonds-only sale on the store's mai... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Although handwriting identifies this photograph as "Machine gun supporting tank attack," it is likely, since the print is also identified as having been ta... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, a Marine intelligence officer, interviewing pilots who have just returned from raids on Japanese installations in the Solomon I... |
| Date: | 09 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the 127th Field Hospital company reunion, with a large United States flag in the background. |
| Date: | 06 1943 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of Walter J. Kohler, Jr., then a Navy lieutenant, taken somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Commander A.E. Reymont shaves his face while division surgeon Captain C.P. Archambault looks on. Captain C.P. Archambault, Medical Corps, United States Nav... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Two doctors attend to a wounded man on a stretcher in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowd with two sailors hugging each other. Sailor with his back to the camera is Seabee B. O. Pledger; other sailor is unknown. They are celebrating V-J Da... |
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