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Soldier in a Hammock

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier wearing fatigues in a "wiki-up", or place to sleep during patrol, in a jungle in Panama. The man is in a hammock which also has a mosquito net. H...
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez, Oriente Province

Date: 1958
Description: Informal meeting in the woods in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is reclining on a hammock talking to a crouching man in the for...
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez, Oriente Province

Date: 1958
Description: Informal meeting in the woods in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. An unidentified man is crouching in the foreground, Fidel Castro reclines on...
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FLN Members in Formations

Date: 08 1957
Description: A group of National Liberation Front members stand at attention in front of another member with a rifle on his shoulder. The men are preparing for training...
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FLN Training in Mine Setting

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members practice what it would be like to set a mine in the field. One man is digging a hole while a group of men watch ...
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Lao Infantry Playing Cards

Date: 05 1961
Description: Group of Colonel Bounchon's Lao infantrymen playing cards in the field. The soldiers sit or stand around a blanket where cards, money and cigarettes are la...
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Kekacham Settlement with Special Forces

Date: 1961
Description: Keukacham Meo settlement, Laos with American special forces and Lao infantrymen. Two soldiers talk near a tent and another works atop a mud-spattered jeep.
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Algerian FLN Member

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front posing for a photograph in a cave.
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Helicopter over Vietnam

Date: 11 1965
Description: A helicopter flies in the sky, with tree-covered hills in the background. In the foreground are several U.S. Marine transport vehicles. Soldiers are workin...
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Marines Endurance Training

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of U.S. Marines during an endurance exercise outdoors. The men are standing with their rifles balanced on their outstretc...
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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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Dead Vietnamese Man

Date: 1961
Description: A dead Vietnamese man lays on the ground as a paratrooper prepares to fire bullets into the body.
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Cuban Revolution Infirmary

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Description: Cuban Revolution infirmary. A soldier holding a rifle sits on the floor next to a man in bed.
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U.S. Special Forces

Date: 1961
Description: View from rear of several shirtless soldiers running up a hill towards an Air America chopper about to land with a new supply of American soldiers in Ban H...
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Trainees Demolish a Bridge

Date: 12 1942
Description: Trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama, gathered around a wooden bridge they are rigging with dynamite charges. The men are wearing fatigue...
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Soldiers Cutting Barbed Wire

Date: 1942
Description: Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac...
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Soldier and Cannonballs

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier walks along the edge of a cliff in Panama, behind stacks of cannonballs and a large sign. The man is wearing a uniform and is holding a sub-machi...
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Flight Nurse with Wounded Soldier

Date: 1945
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...
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Flight Nurse on Plane with Wounded

Date: 1945
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...
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Camaguey Airport Runway with Juan Almeida Bosque

Date: 1959
Description: Group of soldiers talking on a runway at the Camaguey Airport in Cuba one year after the Cuban Revolution. Juan Almeida Bosque, the operating chief of the ...

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