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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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War Correspondent and Two Soldiers

Date: 12 05 1943
Description: Robert Doyle poses in his undershorts between Private Gerald Minkin of Ironwood, Michigan (left) and Private First Class Samuel "Slim" Lanham of Louisville...
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Sad Shack Group

Date: 07 31 1943
Description: G. Robert Mowerson (left), Red Cross Director and Robert Doyle (third from left), War Correspondent, posing with Captain O.S. Allen of Columbus, Georgia, a...
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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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Cuscus at Nadzab Airport

Date: 01 13 1944
Description: An animal caught at the Nadzab Airport. Robert Doyle described it as a "Possum-like animal, White thick fur with brown splotches - Pink face, feet. Big eye...
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Robert Doyle Shaving

Date: 01 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle shaves while looking in a mirror suspended from a hammock with a rain tarp in the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New G...
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Robert Doyle in Pillbox

Date: 01 1943
Description: Robert Doyle emerges from a captured Japanese pillbox at Buna, New Guinea, (present day Papua New Guinea). The pillbox is built of dirt, logs and foliage.
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War Correspondent in B-24 Warplane

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Robert Doyle in a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane during the Alexishafen strike. Alexishafen was a Japanese occupied airbase located on the northeast ...
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Robert Doyle on the German Border

Date: 10 29 1944
Description: Robert Doyle stands with one foot resting on a railroad track on the border between Germany and Belgium. A sign on the right reads "Entering Germany." Behi...
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Officer Reading the Milwaukee Journal

Date: 03 21 1945
Description: Major James Baird of Suring, Wisconsin, reads the Milwaukee Journal in Robert Doyle's quarters on Guam in the South Pacific.
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Robert Doyle with His Gear

Date: 10 1942
Description: Robert Doyle poses outdoors with his gear, helmet and boots. He is standing in a field, with a tree on the left and woods in the background. A piece of she...
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Meteorological Instruments at Airfield

Date: 08 1944
Description: Meteorological instruments at Royal Air Force station Steeple Morden, located 3.5 miles west of Royston, Hertfordshire, England.
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Red Cross Field Director

Date: 07 17 1943
Description: Red Cross Field Director, G. Robert Mowerson of Ann Arbor, Michigan, works at his typewriter at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. A field telephone is ...
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Three Men and a Jeep

Date: 1944
Description: Group portrait of Robert Doyle, wearing a hat and pants, sitting at the wheel of a jeep along with a man in the passenger seat. Another man is leaning agai...
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Three Generals

Date: 12 08 1943
Description: Three Generals of the 32nd Division, (left to right) Brigadier General Robert McBride, Brigadier General Clarence A. Martin and Major General William H. Gi...
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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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Robert Doyle with Two Indigenous Men

Date: 06 1945
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...
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Car Leaving Airfield

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Many photographers take photos of a military automobile leaving an airfield in Paris, France. Robert Doyle notes "arrival of first plane US ATC (United Sta...
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Robert Doyle Napping

Date: 1944
Description: Dick Hanley, of YANK Army Weekly magazine, snapped this photo of Robert Doyle taking a nap on the L-shaped desk in what appears to be a room used by...
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Captain and Three Journalists

Date: 07 29 1945
Description: Robert Doyle poses with two other journalists and a ship's captain on the deck while aboard an escort carrier near Japan. Identified (left to right) are Al...

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