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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Lorraine Larsen, a lathe operator, tends to a bolt body for the 20 mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Quad City Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 07 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four people standing in a muddy excavated hole for a footing at the Ordnance Steel Foundry. The Foundry may have served as part of Interna... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Montage of machines and armaments produced by International Harvester for the war effort. Included are images of jeeps, crawler tractors (TracTracTors), an... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of wounded soldiers being transported to the USS "Samaritan". |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Rear view of soldiers holding their rifles above their heads as they ford a stream in Panama. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, is washing her hands in the 148th General Hospital's scrub room. Hyland is wearing a white cloth around her hair, ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A patrol from the 14th Infantry canoeing in the rain in Panama. Three men in fatigues holding sub-machine guns are sitting in a canoe. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A sentry wearing fatigues sitting in a tree-top lookout post posing for a photograph in Panama. His sub-machine gun is resting on a section of the lookout ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier from the 14th Infantry taking a shower with his pants on at a military base in Panama. The soldier is shirtless and has his arms raised behind hi... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier walks along the edge of a cliff in Panama, behind stacks of cannonballs and a large sign. The man is wearing a uniform and is holding a sub-machi... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a newly commissioned hospital ship, the USS Bountiful, in the Ulithi Harbor. The ship was previously called the USS Henderson |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | The sunrise aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. The mast and bow of the ship are pointed eastward, into the fog and towards the rising sun. |
| Date: | 04 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Tank Landing Ship 929 during an operation in Buckner Bay, Okinawa. Other ships are in the background. |
| 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: | 12 1942 |
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| Description: | Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati... |
| Date: | 12 1942 |
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| Description: | Olive Brooks, Division Engineer Public Relations, collecting dead fish after throwing dynamite into the water. She is holding a fish and has her pants roll... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Continental Transportation Lines, Inc. operating an International semi-truck (tractor-trailer) on a road with a hazy view of a bridge, a body of water and ... |
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