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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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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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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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Iwo Jima Beach on D-Day

Date: 1945
Description: Parts of destroyed boats and military equipment on the shoreline of Iwo Jima on D-Day.
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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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Military Truck Driving Through Mud

Date: 08 15 1943
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...
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Trucks and Plane at the Airfield

Date: 09 05 1943
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...
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Military Aircraft

Date: 09 05 1943
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 ...
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Lae Airstrip

Date: 01 13 1944
Description: Military trucks, jeeps and planes at the Lae Airstrip, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Lae was a Japanese occupied airstrip until September 16, ...
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Port Moresby Harbor

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: General view of Port Moresby Harbor from road, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A jeep is on the road on the left. Several soldiers are near a sh...
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Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
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Three Soldiers in Hospital Pajamas

Date: 1944
Description: Three soldiers in hospital pajamas gaze up at the sky. The middle soldier is on crutches, and the soldier on the left leans on a tent rope. A jeep, more te...
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Small Vessels Carry Supplies

Date: 1943
Description: Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ...
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New Guinea Coast

Date: 1942
Description: View over water towards the New Guinea coast from a boat. A larger boat is on the right and several smaller craft in the center. A pier is on the shoreline...
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Two Consolidated B-24 Liberator Warplanes

Date: 10 13 1943
Description: Aerial view of two Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplanes taken from another airplane during the Alexishafen strike. On the left is Colonel Arthur Rogers' l...

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