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| Description: | Dropping supplies at a South Vietnamese army outpost. Photographer Dickey Chapelle of Milwaukee was on board the helicopter as the drop was taking place. |
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| Description: | A man is positioned in crab-laden mud in which the Sea Swallows set up "the toughest ambush I've ever covered". Vietnam. |
| Date: | 03 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Note on the back: "Defenders dig in. Dien Bien Phu, Indochina: An airport once covered this area where soldiers have dug deep trenches as protection from b... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Medical facilities, Iwo Jima plus nine. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle in the aftermath of the landing at Iwo J... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Howard Hughes on the set of "Sky Devils," a comedy about World War I aviation that starred Spencer Tracy. Hughes reused many of the airplanes he obtained f... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | On the top deck of the Vietnamese Navy's River Assault Group 23 command ship, on the Manhtit River, central Vietnam (vicinity Vinh Long), the "National Geo... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | On the top deck of the Vietnamese Navy's River Assault Group 23 command ship, on the Manhtit River, central Vietnam (vicinity Vinh Long), the "National Geo... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Sydney Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's brother) and a German shepherd dog. Original title: "Syd Chaplin and 'Prince,' a war hero, cited three times for brave... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Private first class, John W. Hood, wearing dogtags smiles after a blood transfusion on the USS Samaritan in Iwo Jima. He is bandaged and is holding ... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Commander J.C. Server, from the United States Navy Reserve, poses for a photograph aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. He is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Second Lieutenant Louis Connick smiling for a photograph aboard USS Samaritan, a hospital ship. He is lying in a bed and holding a cigarette. He is ... |
| Date: | 06 1978 |
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| Description: | Two boys are in the midst of a game of tug of war. They're dressed in overalls, jeans and t-shirts and are in full KISS makeup. KISS was a rock band which ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | George Washington's aide Joseph Ashburn (played by John Bowers in Revolutionary War uniform) confronts Clarence Vernon (Frank Mayo) who has been hiding in ... |
| Date: | 05 1919 |
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| Description: | "For months Miss Storey has been driving a war ambulance in the streets of New York--a work no less valuable than handling one behind the Flanders lines. A... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Alg... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, with Private first class George Berier. Berier's head is wrapped in gauze, and he is preparing to take medicine. Jensen is weari... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, on a plane with wounded soldiers. Jensen is wearing a jumpsuit. There are stretchers attached to the sides of the plane with wou... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A nurse aboard the USS Samaritan feeding a wounded soldier. The man is sitting up in bed as the nurse is raising a fork full of food to his mouth. T... |
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