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| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Army soldiers stand at attention near the United States flag and their tents at Camp Bowie. Military buildings are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Private Leopold Blaha, a barber from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, looks at a poster with a pretty woman depicted on it that urges the soldiers to take their Atabr... |
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| Description: | A Pawling and Harnischfeger Company truck, with an artillery gun mounted on the bed, decorated with banners and flags. Two soldiers are standing on the bac... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers in the lower left look at a map. Behind them is what remains of the Brest Post Office. Just under the decorative stone cornice at the top is t... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers gather in a large classroom at Camp Perry for a class on crawler tractors. A blackboard and various military vehicles are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers, including Juan Almeida Bosque (center), operating chief of the Cuban Air Force, are standing outside of Camaguey Airport, Cuba. The so... |
| Date: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers and officers relax in the "Tropical Inn," a tent that has seating and a raised wooden floor, at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea).... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | General view of Port Moresby Harbor from road, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A jeep is on the road on the left. Several soldiers are near a sh... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 19 1943 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin paratroopers in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), pose holding a captured Japanese marine banner and pistol they brought b... |
| Date: | 12 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Fun Travel Adventure," an underground newspaper, depicting a photomontage of soldiers at Iwo Jima with an oversized, purple flower replacing the ... |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star Medal recipients at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. |
| Date: | 11 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Soldiers fire 21-gun salute during Veteran's Day ceremony held at the State Street entrance to the State Capitol. Businesses seen in the background left to... |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Major General William Hanson Gill awards the Distinguished Service Cross to Staff Sergeant Milan Miljatovich of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at Camp Cable, near B... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Allied soldier posing in Brest, France, in front of a bombed-out building, smoking a cigarette. The street is covered with rubble. |
| Date: | 12 01 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Three Lieutenant nurses from Michigan pose behind a sign that declares "Off Limits To All Troops." Names, left to right, are Lieutenant Avice Cleveringa of... |
| Date: | 08 29 1943 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin cousins, (left) Corporal Englund Johnson, bomber waist gunner, of Park Falls and (right) Sergeant Donald Englund, airplane engine mechanic, o... |
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