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Soldiers with Truck and Airplane

Date: 1943
Description: Uniformed soldiers use a ladder to unload objects from a U.S. Army C-47 airplane labeled "Green Goon." An International truck appears in the foreground wi...
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Ordnance Men

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Michigan soldiers loading bombs onto a trailer at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names, left to right,...
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Interviewing a Group of Soldiers

Date: 1944
Description: Robert Doyle interviews a group of nine soldiers at an airfield. They are standing in front of an airplane (tentatively identified as a Douglas C-47 Skytra...
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"Yank's Delight"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Elevated view of three soldiers working on the engine of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane h...
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Douglas C-54 Skymaster Aircraft

Date: 03 06 1945
Description: An ATC (Air Transport Command) Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft is being loaded by two soldiers at the air base on Kwajalein Island of the Marshall Islands ...
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"Bedroom Commando"

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Three Wisconsin soldiers pose in front of the nose art on their warplane, "Bedroom Commando," depicting a sleepwalker in a nightshirt and slippers, carryin...
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Military Aircraft

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: Military aircraft at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. The aircraft in the foreground is named ...
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Trucks and Plane at the Airfield

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: Trucks at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, wait while paratroopers prepare to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfie...
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Soldier Seated on Nose of Warplane

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Armament Chief Sergeant Lloyd Cleary sits on the nose of a warplane with his feet on the propeller at an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present da...
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Warplane Tail Art

Date: 12 01 1943
Description: Skull and bombs tail art on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane at New Guinea Airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A s...
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Air Evacuation in France

Date: 07 27 1944
Description: Wisconsin military personnel load a patient covered with a blanket on a stretcher onto a Douglas C-47 Skytrain cargo plane during an air evacuation in Norm...
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"Open Date"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: A pilot peers out of the window of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane has nose art depicting ...
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Paratrooper Private Johnny Jump

Date: 1944
Description: View of a paratrooper just about to jump from the side door of a warplane. He is wearing the full kit and is carrying a rifle. It is likely that this is a ...
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"Connell's Special"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Crew Chief Master Sergeant Harold Kuba of Appleton, Wisconsin, leans out of the cockpit window of his warplane. The nose art, "Connell's Special" appears o...
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Pluto and Soldier

Date: 10 18 1943
Description: Mechanic Staff Sergeant Raymond Wagner of Boscobel, Wisconsin, poses shirtless while holding a cigarette and standing next to the nose art on his Consolida...
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"Hot-To-Go"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: A soldier sits in a bulldozer parked under the nose of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Another man i...
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Paratroopers

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: Paratroopers at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea...
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"Naughty Blue Eyes"

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: The crew of the "Naughty Blue Eyes" poses in front of their warplane, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, after the Alexishafen mission. The nose art of a littl...
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Car Leaving Airfield

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Many photographers take photos of a military automobile leaving an airfield in Paris, France. Robert Doyle notes "arrival of first plane US ATC (United Sta...
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Exhibition Baseball Game on Kwajalein Island

Date: 02 22 1945
Description: The batter swings at an exhibition baseball game on a Naval Base on Kwajalein Island of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. Both teams had Big Leagu...

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