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| Date: | 06 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Howard A. Endres reading his furlough papers at the end of World War II, at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. |
| Date: | 07 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Private Lawrence Mueller, Madison, arriving on a train at Camp McCoy for a short furlough before re-deployment to the Pacific. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Male Papuan carriers help members of the 32nd Division construct a road through the jungle of New Guinea. |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | A patrol officer from the 14th Infantry, based in Fort Davis, Panama, follows his compass through the jungle. The patrol officer has a small cigarette in o... |
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| Description: | A soldier hacks a path through a jungle in Panama with a machete while smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers from the 14th Infantry work to move a stuck Jeep from deep mud. One man in uniform with a cigarette in his mouth is leaning down over the wheel ho... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry building a "wiki-up", or place to sleep while on patrol, in a jungle in Panama. One man has a cigarette in his mouth. |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry working among lumber in Panama. One man iswearing a hat and squatting on top of a pile of lumber while holding a hammer... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Second Lieutenant Louis Connick smiling for a photograph aboard USS Samaritan, a hospital ship. He is lying in a bed and holding a cigarette. He is ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Sergeant William (Hub) Gilligan of Camp Douglas, Wisconsin and Sergeant Elmer Warnke of Pardeeville, Wisconsin, conversing at the Quarter Master warehouse ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Eugene Cierzynski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (left) instructs Corporal Edgar Hourscht of Trosky, Minnesota (right), on how to operate a D-8 Caterpill... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ... |
| Date: | 11 13 1943 |
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| Description: | View looking up at three war correspondents, (left to right), Robert Doyle of the Milwaukee Journal, Bob Eunson of Associated Press and Ralph Boyce ... |
| Date: | 11 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Three war correspondents, (left to right), Bob Eunson of Associated Press, Ralph Boyce of YANK Army Weekly magazine and Robert Doyle of the Milwa... |
| Date: | 10 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Motor Pool Dispatchers (left to right) Sergeant Alex Petro of Racine, Wisconsin, and Sergeant Joe Nicolazzi of Kenosha, Wisconsin, chat with Corporal Eugen... |
| Date: | 12 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Four Star General Douglas MacArthur greets a soldier during a tour on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Sol... |
| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Sergeant Ed Gigowski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, plays his accordion for some members of the 121st Field Artillery Battalion at Saidor, New Guinea (present da... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Tank crew at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldier's names are, (top, left to right) Corporal Jim Malliares of Lowell, Massachuset... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Allied soldier posing in Brest, France, in front of a bombed-out building, smoking a cigarette. The street is covered with rubble. |
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