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Prisoner of War Cage

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Groups of Nazi prisoners are being guarded by Allied soldiers.
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War Correspondents in Jeep

Date: 09 04 1943
Description: War correspondents in Port Moresby wait in the back of a jeep the night before a paratroop landing near Lae, a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea (presen...
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High-Ranking German Naval Prisoners

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: High-ranking German Naval Officers arriving at the prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Allied soldiers are standing guard an...
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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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Three War Correspondents Napping

Date: 06 06 1944
Description: Three war correspondents napping on a cot in the Public Relations office at Earls Colne Airfield, England, on D-Day. Many newspaper articles are pinned on ...
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Officer and War Correspondent

Date: 12 17 1943
Description: Lieutenant Richard Prentis of Detroit, Michigan, chats with Dixon Brown about his lava-lava, an indigenous kilt-like garment. Brown is smoking a pipe. Brow...
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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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War Correspondent in Combat Suit

Date: 09 29 1943
Description: Bob Eunson of Associated Press at Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), dressed in a "combat suit." He is wearing a pack on his back and...
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Warships Near Cape Gloucester

Date: 12 26 1943
Description: Elevated view looking down towards deck of an American cruiser leaving the base heading for the bombardment of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, New Guinea (pr...
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War Correspondents at Saidor

Date: 01 02 1944
Description: Three war correspondents at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names (left to right) are, unknown man with camera, John Scarlett of Austral...
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Indigenous Boys Help Soldiers

Date: 1942
Description: Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ...
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Two Officers, La Follette and Kurkeet

Date: 06 19 1943
Description: Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette and Captain William Kurkeet, of Madison, Wisconsin, chatting at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. La Follette ...
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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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Plane Spotters Burg and Dawson

Date: 12 26 1943
Description: Seaman 2nd Class Jerry Burg (left) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Seaman 2nd Class Harold Dawson of Toledo, Ohio, man the plane spotting station on an Americ...
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Dice Game at Military Air Base

Date: 01 25 1944
Description: Soldiers play a crap game at an air base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea).
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Soldier and Captured Pup

Date: 09 17 1944
Description: Private First Class George Sinbine of Elizabeth, New Jersey, holds a captured pup in the Army Ranger Camp near Brest, France.
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Group of Award Recipients

Date: 07 23 1943
Description: Group portrait of the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star Medal recipients at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia.
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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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Wisconsin Soldier

Date: 07 26 1943
Description: Master Sergeant William (Hub) Gilligan of Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, poses for a photo at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Gilligan is a chief clerk of ...
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Soldiers Pushing Jeep

Date: 01 02 1944
Description: Soldiers push a jeep that is stuck on the rocky beach at the Saidor landing. The open front of the LST (Landing Ship, Tank) is on the left. Another LST can...

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