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| 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 push a jeep that is stuck on the rocky beach at the Saidor landing. The open front of the LST (Landing Ship, Tank) is on the left. Another LST can... |
| 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 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers relax and wait for flights at the Nadzab Air Freight building. One soldier leans on the corner of the building. Another soldier, possibly Major Me... |
| 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: | Pilot Staff Sergeant James P. Baldwin of Houston, Texas, poses standing with his Piper Cub at the Saidor Airstrip, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A soldier sits in a bulldozer parked under the nose of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Another man i... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | View of distant smoke from the battle surrounding Brest, France. In the foreground, soldiers are parked in a large field with an air support radio jeep. Th... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | High-ranking German Naval Officers arriving at the prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Allied soldiers are standing guard an... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers in the lower left look at a map. Behind them is what remains of the Brest Post Office. Just under the decorative stone cornice at the top is t... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Many photographers take photos of a military automobile leaving an airfield in Paris, France. Robert Doyle notes "arrival of first plane US ATC (United Sta... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Five railroad soldiers pose on a locomotive near the roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. From Wisconsin are, (top) Se... |
| Date: | 10 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers pose on a wrecked French locomotive in Folligny, France. Names, (left to right) are Switchman Private First Class Kenneth Walters of St. Paul,... |
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