Date: | 1943 |
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Description: | Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, later a Wisconsin senator, posing as a tail gunner during World War II in Douglas SBD Bomber. McCarthy was an intelligen... |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima. |
Date: | 02 1945 |
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Description: | Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ... |
Date: | 09 07 1944 |
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Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Inc., window display promoting saving paper. Shows fake bomb falling on various ammunition with slogans that read: "Get in the Scrap," "... |
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: | 1942 |
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Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
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: | 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: | 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: | 08 05 1945 |
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Description: | Display of German "war junk," including fire arms and clothing, exhibited at the East Side Business Men's Festival. The souvenirs on display were collected... |
Date: | 08 05 1945 |
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Description: | Display of German "war junk," including fire arms, clothing and a German Nazi flag, at the East Side Business Men's Festival. The souvenirs displayed were... |
Date: | 07 1917 |
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Description: | Machine gun training on the grounds of Peekskill Military Academy in New York during World War I. The training was part of a state-sponsored military inst... |
Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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Description: | Brigidier General Ralph E. Immell, visiting the World War I room in the State Historical Society Museum with Lieut. Col. Franklin W. Clarke, commandant, Mi... |
Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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Description: | Mabel Pendleton is shown holding German knives with a German flag on a table. The items, retired from service, were sent by her son, Sgt. Frederick N. Hall... |
Date: | 07 12 1945 |
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Description: | Mrs. T.H. Soehle with various items from Germany which her son, Corporal Theodore Soehle, Jr., a military police officer in France, sent home. |
Date: | 04 04 1947 |
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Description: | Celebrating the 47th anniversary of the purchase of the first "submersible torpedo boat" from its inventor, J.B. Holland, for service in World War I, are C... |
Date: | 10 12 1943 |
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Description: | Earl Otto, an executive of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, takes a turn during the machine gun test of the laminate plastic panels being devel... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Three members of the much-decorated 32nd Division manning a machine gun emplacement in New Guinea. They are, left to right: Lawrence Leishman of Peoria, I... |
Date: | 01 02 1943 |
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Description: | Sergeant Peter Merkel, a member of the 32nd Division from Milwaukee, firing a mortar somewhere in New Guinea. |
Date: | 05 1945 |
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Description: | Members of Dutch Underground arresting a German soldier on the day of liberation in Amsterdam. |
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