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Marines Using Crawler Tractor on Landing Craft

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using an International TD-9 diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) with a Bucyrus Erie shovel on an LCM (Landing Craft, Materiel) at Roi during ...
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Loading Wounded onto Ship

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Description: Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima.
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Battalion Seabees with International Truck

Date: 09 1943
Description: Battalion Seabees work on waterfront construction using an International K-line truck.
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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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International Seabees Trucks

Date: 1944
Description: An International K-5 truck and an M-2-4 truck used by the Seabees are driving along a dirt road built over a body of water.
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Unloading Marine Supplies

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and dozer shovel loader to unload supplies on a beach. A ship is in the background. The ori...
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Marines Loading Truck

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a dozer shovel loader to fill a truck parked on a beach. A ship is in the water behind...
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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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Marines at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three marines dressed in uniform, carrying packs and holding guns, pull an ammunition cart through the water towards the beach at Iwo Jima. Military boats ...
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Marine Casualties at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ...
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Iwo Jima on D-Day

Date: 02 19 1945
Description: Marines on the beach and military boats, including an LSM 242, in the water at Iwo Jima.
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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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Battle at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Marines dig foxholes into the sand on the beaches of Iwo Jima. The men are surrounded by military equipment, including a crane. An International Diesel cra...
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Red Cross Workers Relaxing

Date: 1945
Description: Leota Kelly, directer of the Pacific Athletic Club, division of the Red Cross, and colleagues, at the site of the new Red Cross Club in Tinian near a cliff...
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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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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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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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