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In the Mountains

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen in the mountains.
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United States Army General Hospital

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Description: Exterior of the United States Army General Hospital, Building 23. A uniformed man stands outside, carrying a tray. A dirt road leads to the left where an a...
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Tiroler Standschützen in Battle

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Description: Soldiers of a rifle guild fighting from large boulder.
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: Men pose with two fire engines parked outside the open doors of the fire station at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. The station sign re...
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Traversing a Glacier

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Description: Traversing a glacier in the area of Monte Cevedale.
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Russian Prisoners Working

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Description: Russian prisoners working to restore the destroyed train station in Skiernewize.
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Sailors Moving Boxes of Human Blood

Date: 04 04 1945
Description: Two men working together to move a box marked "Human Blood" at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. They are aboard a tank landing ship pontoon float. One man is w...
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Seabees Dismantling Fuel Tanks

Date: 09 30 1943
Description: The 56th Construction Battalion of Seabees dismantles fuel tanks using a crane and an International K-line truck. The original caption reads: "Project No. ...
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First Fireman Drill Center for Madison Firefighters

Date: 11 11 1964
Description: Madison firefighters shown scaling ladders at the first permanent training center. It was originally a military theater for Truax Field and then the Madiso...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on the Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on the shoreline. The men are barefoot and standing in the water with their pants rolled up.
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Site of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Assassination

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Description: This very spot, where a memorial plaque is being installed, is the scene of the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo.
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United States Army General Hospital Nurses' Recreation House

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Description: Exterior view looking down toward the Nurses' Recreation House at the United States Army General Hospital. A flag on a flagpole is on the roof, and a man i...
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Russian Firemen Extinguishing Flames

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers look on as a group of Russian firefighters are attempting to extinguish a fire in a building possibly used by the Allied forces in Arch...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on a Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on a shoreline in the South Tyrol. The men are barefoot and standing in the water, while one of the ...
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Observation Tower

Date: 1918
Description: Four men stand outdoors near a log building at the base of a large ladder leading up to an observation tower. The ladder is constructed between the trunks ...
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Army Brothers

Date: 1943
Description: A rickety ladder serves (Sergeant) Technician 4th Grade John Duray (left), and his brother, Staff Sergeant Isador Duray, both of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in the...
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Marine Aircraft Group Plane

Date: 03 1945
Description: Men working on a Marine Aircraft Group plane at Ulithi airport. One man is standing near the nose of the plan, looking inside. He is shirtless and wearing ...
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Life in Skutari

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Description: Returning Turkish merchant reopening his store in Skutari, Albania.
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Repairing Buildings in Merxen, Belgium

Date: 1914
Description: Reconstructing destroyed buildings in Merxen near Antwerp.
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Saales Bombarded by French

Date: 09 28 1914
Description: Town of Saales. Bombarded by the French on September 28.

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