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| Date: | 05 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Physical exercise aboard an aircraft carrier during World War II. This photograph was a part of a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. La Follette, former gove... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Coast guardsmen shuttle landing craft back and forth from the anchorage to the beach of Eniwetok Atoll, bringing in fighters and s... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marines unloading equipment and vehicles from supply ships at Guam beach. International M-5-H-65 trucks are in the background. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Marine driving an International TD-9 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) off of a landing craft at Cape Gloucester. The original caption reads: "When th... |
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| Description: | USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines on the beach and military boats, including an LSM 242, in the water at Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of wounded soldiers being transported to the USS "Samaritan". |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A body on a stretcher is lying on the deck of the USS "Samaritan." The body is covered by a blanket, except for an arm which has a small tattoo. Behind the... |
| Date: | 11 08 1943 |
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| Description: | 32nd Division Infantry Combat Team landing from LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) in a practice exercise. Soldiers are running down a ramp, then up a rocky beac... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from aboard ship looking down on a soldier in a turret operating a range finder. These warships were participating in the heavy bombardment o... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Navigation instruments on an American cruiser were checked by Lieutenant Commander Leonard Meyer of Appleton. Three other crew members are nearby. The crui... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down towards deck of an American cruiser leaving the base heading for the bombardment of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, New Guinea (pr... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Seaman 2nd Class Jerry Burg (left) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Seaman 2nd Class Harold Dawson of Toledo, Ohio, man the plane spotting station on an Americ... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Two sailors on an American cruiser returning to base after the bombardment of Cape Gloucester. The bombardment took place before the marine landing. One sa... |
| Date: | 12 31 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the loaded deck of a LST (Landing Ship, Tank) on the way from Goodenough Island to Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). On t... |
| Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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| Description: | LST (Landing Ship, Tank) on the beach at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Soldiers are unloading vehicles and supplies for the Saidor lan... |
| Date: | 01 12 1944 |
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| Description: | View of two PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats from another PT boat, off of the north coast of New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats ... |
| 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... |
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