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| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The forward magazines of the USS Shaw exploding after a Japanese bomb set the fore aflame as it sat in dock at Pearl Harbor. The midships and stern ... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The USS Nevada in berth at Pearl Harbor with the USS Shaw burning in the background after its forward deck was hit with a Japanese bomb. |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The remains of the USS Cassin and the USS Downes floating in front of the USS Pennsylvania in dock at Pearl Harbor. On the left is th... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors in a motor launch attempt a rescue of survivors from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia during or shortly after the... |
| Date: | 01 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Children of parents who work at war plants participate in after school recreation program at Marquette School. Shown standing behind a ping-pong table, wit... |
| Date: | 01 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Lorraine and Jackie Winters (ages 6 and 8 respectively), standing in front of piles of coins they have saved to buy a third War Bond. The children live at ... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Reverend Elgar F. Mindorff, not long after being released from a Japanese military prison in China. |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Members of the Executive Committee of the Red Cross War Fund Drive, left to right: W.H. Frederick, H.H. Kletzein, Louis Hanks, Mrs. Lohra Davies, Louis Hi... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Workers for the Dane County chapter of the American Red Cross, (back row, left to right): W.H. Frederick, H.H. Kletzien, Arthur Towell; and (front row, lef... |
| Date: | 02 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Six new female Marine Corp Women's Reserve prior to their departure for Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina; six Marines stationed at Truax Field; and ... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Red Cross volunteers from Christ Presbyterian Church working on "scruffies" for hospitalized soldiers at Truax Field. Left to right are Mrs. H.L. Yeager, R... |
| Date: | 07 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Navy Lieutenant Leo F. Kosak prior to reporting for active duty in Tucson, Arizona. |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Louis Hirsig, chairman of the Red Cross campaign for Madison. |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Nine Air Scouts (Boy Scouts) and their leader, Ernfred Romare. Back row, left to right are Keith Pope, Fred Peterson, Bill Harks, Francis Dirienzo, and Tom... |
| Date: | 02 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Greg and Lucille McCormick(?), 2002 Yahara Place, with thier son Patrick(?), in military uniform, and a dog. |
| Date: | 02 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Red Cross War Fund Drive leaders sitting at a table discussing plans for war fund drive. Left to Right: James R. Law, June B. Wheeler, Louis Hirsig, Alden ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison East High School student, Sydney Freeman, presenting a check for the Red Cross war fund to Oscar Rennebohm and Albert Felly. |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private George Grasser, in foreground, checking in a stack of lessons which have come from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world, for Un... |
| Date: | 02 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Boy Scout Troop 16 War Bond Presentation with Mayor F. Halsey Kraege signing the order to purchase $23,000 from the city insurance fund, $3,500 from Forest... |
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