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Michigan Soldiers and Captured Japanese Machine Gun

Date: 01 18 1944
Description: Six soldiers from Michigan pose with a captured Japanese gun. It may be a Japanese 12.7-mm (Fixed Mount) Aircraft Machine Gun. The soldiers were stationed ...
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Soldiers on Bridge

Date: 1943
Description: Soldiers in battle gear, holding rifles, marching in a long line across a wooden bridge. Across the water is a building on the shoreline with the jungle be...
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Two Soldiers and a Jeep

Date: 1944
Description: Two soldiers use the hood of a jeep as a desk as they view some papers. One man is a First Sergeant and the other has insignia on his collar but is obscure...
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Hall Set for Soldiers Return

Date: 1898
Description: American flags drape the walls of a large empty hall prepared with one thousand place settings for soldiers returning from the Spanish-American War.
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Army Vehicles on Autobahn

Date: 1945
Description: View down road towards horizon of a long line of vehicles along the autobahn. U.S. Army soldiers are driving the vehicles to deliver artillery and supplies...
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Soldiers View Old Suspension Bridge

Date: 01 18 1944
Description: Three soldiers view an old damaged indigenous suspension bridge. The soldier with a rifle on the right is Private Marion Tewalt of Viroqua, Wisconsin. The ...
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Military Truck Driving Through Mud

Date: 08 15 1943
Description: Three soldiers in a truck drive through mud on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Jungle foliage is in the back...
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Preparing for Action

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Description: Colorized postcard of a combat drill. The scene includes soldiers, horses, wagons, cannons, tents, buildings and trees. Text above reads: "'Preparing for A...
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Tank Destroyer at Saidor

Date: 01 02 1944
Description: Soldiers on a tank destroyer in the jungle at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A soldier in the foreground appears to be moving some bran...
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Soldiers with Jeep View Smoke from Brest

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: View of distant smoke from the battle surrounding Brest, France. In the foreground, soldiers are parked in a large field with an air support radio jeep. Th...
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Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
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U.S. Military Academy

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Description: A view of soldiers of the U.S. Military Academy in formation wearing summer uniforms during a parade.
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Twin Soldiers from Milwaukee

Date: 04 15 1945
Description: Twin soldiers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pose on a pile of rubble with a dog at the Army base on Guam, in the South Pacific. On the left is Corporal Robert...
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Mountain Swimming Hole in the South Pacific

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Robert Doyle's caption for Image ID: 99742 says it best, "The ol' swimmin' hole, South Pacific style. Every afternoon it is filled with shouting soldiers i...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are building barbed wire entanglements in a lake reed bed on the southwestern battlefront in South Tyrol. One man holding a coil of wire ...
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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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Three Soldiers in Hospital Pajamas

Date: 1944
Description: Three soldiers in hospital pajamas gaze up at the sky. The middle soldier is on crutches, and the soldier on the left leans on a tent rope. A jeep, more te...
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Twins at Lister Bag

Date: 11 04 1943
Description: Twin soldiers, Corporal John Kellner (left) and Private First Class Bob Kellner (right) of Milwaukee get a drink at the lister bag, in the camp on Goodenou...
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Soldiers and Howitzer near Brest

Date: 09 10 1944
Description: Soldiers with a 105mm Howitzer near Brest, France. Camouflage netting is over their heads. Names, (left to right) are Private First Class Thomas Greatorex ...
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Camp Grant

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers of Company I, Baraboo, Wisconsin, pose with their rifles at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. There are tents behind them and a wooded area in t...

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