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| Description: | One Naval student operates a telegraph while another student observes, listening with earphones, at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). A typewriter is... |
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| Description: | A man testing telegraph equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Six women and one man take messages at the Truax Field Message Center, during World War II. Beatrice Lamoreux is sitting at the back table on the left side... |
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| Description: | A table top is filled with typewriters at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). Two signs identify which need repair, and which have been repaired. In th... |
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| Description: | Naval students sit together at long tables and write messages while listening to earphones at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). In the background a m... |
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| Description: | Two men are repairing typewriters at a table at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Group of Army recruits in formation. Original caption reads: "The 609th Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalion, recruited from IH operations... pictu... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, is washing her hands in the 148th General Hospital's scrub room. Hyland is wearing a white cloth around her hair, ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Martha Pratt, assistant field director at the Red Cross hospital in Saipan, participates in conversational therapy with a soldier wounded in Iwo Jima. Prat... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Private first class Ann D. Dozier, a refrigerating engineer from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, posing for a photograph at the Mauna Loa R... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A badly wounded Sergent Frank W. Mrocykowski resting aboard the USS Samaritan. His head and eye are bandaged. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A woman with a badge marked "Bell Telephone System" is holding a telephone cradle while handing a wounded marine a telephone receiver. The marine is lying ... |
| 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: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Continental Transportation Lines, Inc. operating an International semi-truck on a highway with an industrial area in the background. Original caption reads... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck with refrigerated semi-trailer (semi truck) parked next to a box car near a warehouse building. Original caption reads: "Meat and... |
| Date: | 07 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Red Cross Field Director, G. Robert Mowerson of Ann Arbor, Michigan, works at his typewriter at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. A field telephone is ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d... |
| Date: | 09 29 1943 |
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| Description: | The interior of the "Sad Shack" at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Two men are standing and two men are sitting in chairs. Personal items such as por... |
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