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| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Driver field testing an International M-2-4 truck manufactured at International Harvester's Springfield Works for the U.S. Marine Corps. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 15 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 10 1943 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | War correspondents in Port Moresby wait in the back of a jeep the night before a paratroop landing near Lae, a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea (presen... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | A smiling Robert Doyle holds the nozzle to the gas pump with one hand and gives the "thumbs up" sign with the other at the Kangaroo Korner Gas Station near... |
| Date: | 11 17 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 25 1944 |
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| Description: | A roadside stop in Normandy, France. Three men are standing with a jeep. From left is Robert Doyle, war correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal. The... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle standing on a tank. A soldier is peering out of a hatch behind him on the right. A power pole and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 04 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldier L. Heims, seated outdoors on the back of a loaded vehicle, smiling broadly while reading a letter. Other smiling soldiers are in the background. |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldier offering food to Japanese women and children gathered on a roadside in Okinawa. One woman wears a baby on her back. Other soldiers watch from a jee... |
| Date: | 04 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Several members of the 4th Marines, some standing in the road and others seated on vehicles at Ishikawa shortly after the city fell. |
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