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| Date: | 07 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Earl Foster, a mechanic in a quartermaster unit, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, at the wheel of a jeep sedan at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Driv... |
| Date: | 08 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers pose in a jeep. The driver is Sergeant Howard Cody of Racine, Wisconsin, and next to him is Private Eugene Pregont of Wausau, Wisconsin. Palm ... |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st... |
| Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers in a truck drive through mud on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Jungle foliage is in the back... |
| Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | War correspondents in Port Moresby wait in the back of a jeep the night before a paratroop landing near Lae, a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea (presen... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Trucks at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, wait while paratroopers prepare to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfie... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Military aircraft at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. The aircraft in the foreground is named ... |
| Date: | 11 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Gareale Brezeale of Warren, Arkansas, stands next to barrels, and Private First Class William Imhoff of Detroit, Michigan, holds the nozzle to the... |
| Date: | 10 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Arthur L. Post of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot down on June 20th, 1943 and rescued on September 28th, 1943 after 101 days in the jungle. Here he is... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Arthur L. Post of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot down on June 20th, 1943 and rescued on September 28th, 1943 after 101 days in the jungle. Here he is... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Motor Pool Dispatcher Sergeant Alex Petro of Racine, Wisconsin, fuels a jeep near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). He is a member o... |
| Date: | 12 02 1943 |
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| Description: | An Intelligence Officer smiles as he holds an indigenous plant with fruit on it used for food. A building is behind him with two signs, "Operations" and "O... |
| Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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| Description: | At 8:30 am, military vehicles pour off of the LST (Landing Ship, Tank) and along the beach at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Doyle's ca... |
| Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers on a tank destroyer in the jungle at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A soldier in the foreground appears to be moving some bran... |
| Date: | 01 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Two officers sit on improvised seats (boards on barrels) at the T-Beach Whittling Club, located on the north coast of New Guinea (present day Papua New Gui... |
| Date: | 01 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Hammocks with rain tarps in the tree-shaded Headquarters area of the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Tents and jeeps ar... |
| Date: | 01 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Several soldiers can be are in th... |
| Date: | 01 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Many soldiers surround the jeep a... |
| Date: | 01 24 1944 |
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| Description: | "Beach Road," Robert Doyle's caption in the Milwaukee Journal said it best, "Saidor travel Bureau never reports roads impassable as long as wheels a... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of three soldiers working on the engine of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane h... |
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