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Nurse Boarding Jeep

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, boarding a Jeep at 148th General Hospital in Saipan. Hyland is wearing a striped jumpsuit and has her hair tied up...
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Red Cross Workers Relaxing

Date: 1945
Description: Leota Kelly, directer of the Pacific Athletic Club, division of the Red Cross, and colleagues, at the site of the new Red Cross Club in Tinian near a cliff...
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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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Indigenous Men Watch Planes on Airfield

Date: 08 15 1943
Description: Indigenous men stand by a tail section as they watch planes take off and land at the Kiriwina Airfield on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p...
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War Correspondents

Date: 08 31 1943
Description: Group portrait of war correspondents at Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Robert Doyle is in the center.
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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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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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Missing Pilot Returns

Date: 10 21 1943
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...
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Missing Pilot Returns

Date: 11 21 1943
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...
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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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Motor Pool Dispatcher

Date: 11 30 1943
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...
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Indigenous Plant

Date: 12 02 1943
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...
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Navigator

Date: 12 02 1943
Description: Navigator Lieutenant Fred Radtke of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses while perched on the side of a jeep. The base is near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day...
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Sailor on Tank Landing Ship

Date: 01 02 1944
Description: Seaman First Class Thomas Veater (shirtless) of Louzerne, Pennsylvania, on a LST (Landing Ship, Tank) after the landing at Saidor, New Guinea (present day ...
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Two Soldiers and a Jeep

Date: 1944
Description: Two soldiers use the hood of a jeep as a desk as they view some papers. One man is a First Sergeant and the other has insignia on his collar but is obscure...
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New Guinea Agrees with War Correspondents

Date: 11 01 1942
Description: War correspondents, whose typewriters and cameras keep the world informed of action in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), live together in a large ...
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Indigenous Boys Help Soldiers

Date: 1942
Description: Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ...
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Robert Doyle with Two Indigenous Men

Date: 06 1945
Description: Micronesian men, who put thatched roofs on buildings in the western Caroline Islands for United States forces, sit chatting with Robert J. Doyle, The Journ...
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Robert Doyle in a Transfer-At-Sea-Chair

Date: 1944
Description: A smiling Robert Doyle is transferred between two ships using a manila highline in a transfer-at-sea chair, also called a boatswain's chair. He is wearing ...

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