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Cemetery for War Dead from Iwo Jima

Date: 03 1945
Description: The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart...
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Launching Rockets During Battle of Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima.
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TAG Operations, WWII

Date: 03 1945
Description: TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the ...
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International TD-9 Diesel Crawler Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Soldiers, supplies and an International TD-9 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) on a beach at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II....
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U.S. Marines Using International Crawler Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Marines ride through a creek on a trailer pulled by an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor).
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M-5 Prime Mover

Date: 1945
Description: Soldiers pulling 155mm howitzer with an M-5 tractor at Camp Adair, Oregon. The original caption reads: "This is the new M-5 tractor which replaces 2 and o...
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Corporal William Lovelace and Family

Date: 03 13 1945
Description: Corporal William (Bill) Lovelace, 319 North Blair Street, returning home after spending one year hiding from the Japanese and two years in a Japanese priso...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Pfc. Arthur Lovinger, passenger in the front seat; Staff Sgt. Robert Hanke, passenger in the back seat; and Staff Sgt. Louis Kaminsky, driving a car. They ...
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Members of Dutch Underground Arrest German Soldier

Date: 05 1945
Description: Members of Dutch Underground arresting a German soldier on the day of liberation in Amsterdam.
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Loading Wounded Soldier onto Ship

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship.
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Wounded Men Disembarking from Hospital Ship

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Description: Wounded soldiers are led from the USS Samaritan, a hospital ship.
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Class at Camp Perry

Date: 1942
Description: A group of uniformed military men sit in wooden chairs inside a building at Camp Perry as they are instructed on various kinds of machinery. Two chalkboard...
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Soldiers with Truck and Airplane

Date: 1943
Description: Uniformed soldiers use a ladder to unload objects from a U.S. Army C-47 airplane labeled "Green Goon." An International truck appears in the foreground wi...
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K-1 Coast Guard Truck on Beach

Date: 1943
Description: Two uniformed men sit inside an International K-1 U.S. Coast Guard truck parked on a beach while another man speaks to them through the open passenger door...
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Marine Casualties at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ...
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International Harvester Parade Float

Date: 1945
Description: Me and women line the sidewalks to watch an International Harvester parade float go by. The float is decorated with uniformed men in a jeep, and palm trees...
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Army Vehicles on Autobahn

Date: 1945
Description: View down road towards horizon of a long line of vehicles along the autobahn. U.S. Army soldiers are driving the vehicles to deliver artillery and supplies...
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Food Cart

Date: 1946
Description: American soldier purchasing something from a food cart, a scene photographed by conservationist Sigurd Olson while traveling in Europe immediately after th...
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Going Home

Date: 1946
Description: Soldiers waiting to board ship for their return home after World War II.
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Enroute to Class

Date: 1946
Description: Conservationist Sigurd F. Olson, who was on a special military teaching assigment, took this picture of U.S. troops in Berlin marching to his lecture. Bomb...

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