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| Date: | 12 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Ordnance Lieutenant Elroy Derksen of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, glances up from writing on papers laying on the hood of his jeep at a military base in New Guine... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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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| Description: | General Augustus Gaylord (seated right), the Adjutant-General of Wisconsin. Caption reads: "Quotas and Credits." |
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| Description: | Tiroler Landesschuetzen (territorial troops from the Province of Tyrol) resting in a forest on the southern battlefront. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | South Vietnamese soldiers gathered around a table where a woman, the "paymistress," sits with payroll sheets. The men are collecting their pay in the villa... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Wounded German soldiers writing quick notes home before the departure of the train. A sign on the far left reads: "Annahme von Handgepäck." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Raúl Castro is smoking a cigarette and leaning towards someone writing in a notebook during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin and probably Celia Sanchez ar... |
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| Description: | Naval students sit together at long tables and write messages while listening to earphones at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). In the background a m... |
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| Description: | The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Soldier in left foreground has to write with his left hand since his right hand was wounded. |
| Date: | 12 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Major Glenn McConagha, commandant of the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) seated at a desk signing a course completion certificate. USAFI provi... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle as he reads and writes indoors. He is wearing a bracelet (perhaps an ID) on his right wrist, and is holding a cigarette. Another man sitting b... |
| Date: | 04 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle (shirtles), works at the typewriter in his quarters in the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) #5, room 110, at CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacif... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ... |
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| Description: | Monument of Lew Wallace (1827-1905), Union general in the Civil War and author of 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.' |
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| Description: | Scribe (for the illiterate) on the streets of Damascus. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of war correspondents and photographers on a ship on their way to Australia, February-March, 1942. Byron Darnton, reporter for the New York... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | "The famous Blue Angel Drill Team visits Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Cartnoonist Walt Kelly draws one of his famous cartoon characters for an audience of veterans at the Veterans Hospital. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | "The famous Blue Angel Drill Team visits Milwaukee." |
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