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Soldiers on a TD-18 Diesel TracTracTor

Date: 05 15 1941
Description: Three African American field artillery soldiers crossing a creek on a TD-18 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and 155 mm gun. The soldiers were from Bat...
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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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Marines use International Crawler Tractor to Transport Supplies

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using an International Harvester TracTracTor to transport supplies through muddy soil. Original caption reads: "Soil, principally sandy-mud, a...
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International M-2-4 Truck Manufactured for U.S. Marines

Date: 1941
Description: Driver field testing an International M-2-4 truck manufactured at International Harvester's Springfield Works for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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International M-5 High Speed Prime Mover

Date: 1943
Description: Army personnel pulling a 155mm howitzer with a International M-5 High Speed Prime Mover during a test or demonstration. Original caption reads: "This high ...
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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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Solomon Islands Men Standing on U.S. Marine Corps Truck

Date: 1943
Description: Men, natives of the Solomon Islands, standing on a U.S. Marine Corps truck made by International Harvester. Some of the men are holding rifles.
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U.S. Marine Corps International Vehicle

Date: 1941
Description: An International truck used by the U.S. Marine Corps is driven up a snow-covered hill by a man wearing a jacket, gloves, and baseball cap. The original cap...
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Marines in International M-3-4 Trucks

Date: 1941
Description: Groups of uniformed Marines await transportation to a rifle range on the beds of International M-3-4 trucks parked in a row along the side of a road. There...
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Marines in Truck on Highway

Date: 1941
Description: A group of Marines rides on the bed of an International truck as it rolls along a highway. The original caption reads, "Photograph made on highway north o...
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Halavo Seaplane Base

Date: 1943
Description: Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base...
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Uniformed Men with International Trucks

Date: 1944
Description: Uniformed men sit on top of International crawler tractors equipped with bulldozer blades in an area of brush with hills in the background. An internationa...
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Military Men on Lunch Break

Date: 1944
Description: Soldiers sitting on the ground under the shade of a tree to eat lunch. Construction equipment, including an International crawler tractor, is in the backgr...
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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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Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 1945
Description: A military truck with men in uniform is on a road near three Japanese women and a small child who are sitting on the grass on the roadside. Two of the wom...
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Group of Soldiers with Dog

Date: 04 05 1954
Description: Soldiers in Ishikowa, Okinawa resting on top of a truck with a dog. This photograph was taken hours after Ishikowa (population 400) fell. The marines, dres...
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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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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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