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| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ... |
| Date: | 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers land on the beach in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They use collapsible canvas boats to ferry men and equipment from small coastal ve... |
| Date: | 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers land on the beach in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They use collapsible canvas boats to ferry men and equipment from small coastal ve... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | From the caption that accompanied the image: "Fellow workers in civilian life, these Milwaukeeans met recently on Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall islands. ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | From the caption that accompanied the image: "Fellow workers in civilian life, these Milwaukeeans met recently on Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall islands. ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Men in Navy uniforms enter an International bus marked "U.S. Navy." Men sitting in the bus are leaning out the windows on the right side. There is a long b... |
| Date: | 06 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 10 13 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | View of a soldier seated on rocky ground looking off to the left. Behind him and to the right a row of soldiers are behind sandbags, and behind them are a ... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down towards a group of men taking a wounded soldier down a ramp from the USS Samaritan to a waiting ambulance. Several milita... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher toward the back of a waiting vehicle to transport him to another location. A grass-roofed building is in the... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp are being loaded onto a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
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