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High-Speed Prime Mover

Date: 1943
Description: A M-5 high-speed prime mover carries men through a field. The original caption reads: "The M-5 high-speed prime mover, designed and engineered by Internati...
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International K-8 Truck with Crane

Date: 1941
Description: An International K-8 truck and a Byers crane are used to lift a piece of wood in the construction of a U.S. Army building. The original caption reads: "Nat...
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International Truck with U.S. Coast Guard Seamen

Date: 1943
Description: Three men of the United States Coast Guard ride in the back of an International truck. The photograph was probably taken in front of Camp Chelsea. The orig...
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Camp Perry Classroom

Date: 1942
Description: A group of soldiers gather in a large classroom at Camp Perry for a class on crawler tractors. A blackboard and various military vehicles are in the backgr...
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War Movie Advertisement

Date: 07 1942
Description: Photographic copy of an advertisement featuring two film strips with scenes from the movies "The Strong Shall be Free" and "The Marines Have Landed." The m...
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Marines Pulling Trailer from Mud

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to pull an ammunition trailer from the mud. The original caption reads: "JAPANESE A...
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Group in International Ambulance

Date: 1941
Description: A uniformed First Lieutenant and two TWA air hostesses are sitting inside an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service ...
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Soldier in Jeep Sedan

Date: 07 15 1943
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...
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Wisconsin Soldiers in Jeep

Date: 08 10 1943
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 ...
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Crew on Higgins Boat

Date: 08 11 1943
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...
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Paratroopers

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: Paratroopers at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea...
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Navigator in a B-24 Warplane

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Lieutenant Paul Seramur of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the navigator table in a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane during the Alexishafen strike. He is hold...
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War Correspondent in B-24 Warplane

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Robert Doyle in a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane during the Alexishafen strike. Alexishafen was a Japanese occupied airbase located on the northeast ...
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"Naughty Blue Eyes"

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: The crew of the "Naughty Blue Eyes" poses in front of their warplane, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, after the Alexishafen mission. The nose art of a littl...
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B-24 Warplane Navigator

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Navigator Lieutenant Paul Seramur of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses in front of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane after the Alexishafen strike. The name ...
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Fueling Station

Date: 11 17 1943
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...
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"Windy City Kitty"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th...
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"Connell's Special"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Crew Chief Master Sergeant Harold Kuba of Appleton, Wisconsin, leans out of the cockpit window of his warplane. The nose art, "Connell's Special" appears o...
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Pluto and Soldier

Date: 10 18 1943
Description: Mechanic Staff Sergeant Raymond Wagner of Boscobel, Wisconsin, poses shirtless while holding a cigarette and standing next to the nose art on his Consolida...
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Admiring Major's Insignia

Date: 11 21 1943
Description: Robert Doyle admires the golden oak leaf of Major Post's collar insignia. They are standing in front of the tail assembly of a plane similar to Post's. Maj...

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