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Islands Near Pago Pago

Date: 02 28 1945
Description: Robert Doyle notes, "Strange island near Pago Pago." He was on Tutuila Island, in American Samoa, in the South Pacific. Palm trees are growing on the shore...
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Homemade Motorboat on the Beach

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: A homemade motorboat on the beach on Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific. Robert Doyle notes that "belly tanks" were used in the boat construction. A buildin...
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Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
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Robert Doyle and Captain Money

Date: 11 05 1943
Description: Robert Doyle and Australian Captain William (Bill) A. Money, chat on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). In t...
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Robert Doyle and a Student

Date: 02 24 1945
Description: Robert Doyle poses next to a young woman from the London Missionary Society School, Tutuila Mission, located on Tutuila, American Samoa. She is wearing a w...
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Island Woman with Typewriter

Date: 08 24 1943
Description: An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d...
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Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette and War Correspondent

Date: 12 18 1943
Description: War Correspondent Robert Doyle and Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette, wearing combat uniform, chat while standing on a shoreline. Lieutenant Colonel...
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War Correspondent Interviews Two Generals

Date: 07 16 1943
Description: Civilian war correspondent Robert Doyle interviewing Major General William Hanson Gill (left), and Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger (right), at Ca...
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Boys Peeling Yams

Date: 08 12 1943
Description: Two indigenous boys peel yams on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea).
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Village on Kiriwina Island

Date: 08 15 1943
Description: View of the backyards of several dwellings in an indigenous village on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea).
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Regimental Surgeon

Date: 08 13 1943
Description: Major Howard Pagel of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, poses for a photo on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Notes by Ro...
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Milne Bay

Date: 08 11 1943
Description: A view of Milne Bay, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), from the sea. A ship can be seen on the right, at the shoreline.
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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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Indigenous Men Building Roof

Date: 08 16 1943
Description: Five indigenous workers balance on timbers while building the framing for a roof on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New G...
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American Warship

Date: 12 26 1943
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...
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Warships Near Cape Gloucester

Date: 12 26 1943
Description: Elevated view, perhaps from an American Cruiser, of warships leaving the base heading for the bombardment of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, New Guinea (pres...
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Lae Airstrip

Date: 01 13 1944
Description: Military trucks, jeeps and planes at the Lae Airstrip, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Lae was a Japanese occupied airstrip until September 16, ...
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Tail of Passenger Transport Aircraft

Date: 10 21 1943
Description: Tail of a Lodestar aircraft at Townsville Airfield, Queensland, Australia. The Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar was a passenger transport aircraft of the World W...
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Two Kiriwina Island Children

Date: 08 28 1943
Description: View looking up at an upset indigenous toddler wearing a banner around his middle with "1944" pasted on it. He is holding a pair of sunglasses and standing...
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Soldiers and Howitzer near Brest

Date: 09 10 1944
Description: Soldiers with a 105mm Howitzer near Brest, France. Camouflage netting is over their heads. Names, (left to right) are Private First Class Thomas Greatorex ...

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