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Soldiers with Machine Gun

Date: 1946
Description: Two soldiers huddle behind a 30mm machine gun. Part of a series of images made by Chapelle during World War II in the Pacific Ocean region, including image...
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Inside Helicopter "Manhunt"

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Description: This photograph labeled only as "Manhunt" by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle shows the interior of a helicopter used during the early stages of U.S....
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Franklin Hofele with Facial Wounds

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Description: Marine Franklin Hofele sits aboard the USS "Samaritan" with injuries.
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Transporting Wounded Soldiers

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of wounded soldiers being transported to the USS "Samaritan".
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Marines at Soc Trang

Date: 06 1962
Description: Marines arriving at Soc Trang on a C-130 Hercules transport carrier. Soc Trang was an abandoned landing strip built by the Japanese during World War II. ...
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Cemetery for War Dead from Iwo Jima

Date: 03 1945
Description: The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart...
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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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Wounded Men Disembarking from Hospital Ship

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Description: Wounded soldiers are led from the USS Samaritan, a hospital ship.
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FLN Members with NATO Bomb

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members show an unexploded bomb to Dickey Chapelle, proving NATO's involvement in the war. The men are crouched around t...
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Carrying Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. Children watch as a group of men begin to pick up corpses wrapped in sheets on woven mats.
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Two Doctors with Wounded Man

Date: 02 1945
Description: Two doctors attend to a wounded man on a stretcher in Iwo Jima.
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Vietnamese Training

Date: 06 1962
Description: Training exercise for South Vietnamese soldiers in helicopter deployment. This photograph of the early stages of American involvement in the war in Vietna...
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Loading Wounded Soldier onto Ship

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship.
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Navy Doctors Performing Surgery

Date: 1945
Description: Three male medical personnel operate on a wounded soldier while a female medic administers anaesthetic.
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Wounded Men in a Foxhole

Date: 02 1945
Description: Wounded men are laying in a foxhole in Iwo Jima waiting to be moved to another location.
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Unexploded Aerial Bomb

Date: 08 1957
Description: A group of men from the National Liberation Front (FLN) show an unexploded aerial bomb to Dickey Chapelle, demonstrating NATO involvement in the war.
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Wounded Marine in Iwo Jima

Date: 02 1945
Description: A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged.
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WWII Red Cross Worker

Date: 03 1945
Description: Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b...
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Captive, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Captive held in a concrete room in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village. The woman is wearing all black, is barefoot an...
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Smoking Rubble, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Smoking rubble in the village of Vin Quoi, Vietnam. Destruction caused by Viet Cong.

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