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| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Sergeant Walter Schaefer of Port Washington, Wisconsin, swings from a rope over an extremely muddy road just after a truck has just driven through at a mil... |
| 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: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rough Raider Squadron Laundry, serving 100 customers a day. Eight soldiers can be seen, some working, some watching, and one soldier c... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 12 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle takes a photo of General Douglas MacArthur as he greets a soldier during a tour on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View over water towards the New Guinea coast from a boat. A larger boat is on the right and several smaller craft in the center. A pier is on the shoreline... |
| 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: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Earl Foster, a mechanic in a quartermaster unit, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, at the wheel of a jeep sedan at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Driv... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed men study a map placed on a desk. The original caption reads: "STUDYING THE BATTALION'S NEXT HOME. Lt. Col. D.L. Van Syckle (right), comman... |
| 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: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A GI of the United States 76th Infantry Division dines on K rations outside a German pillbox. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Typed text on back of photograph: "River Falls Rifle company, River Falls, Wis. Organized 1859, later fought with 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in Civi... |
| 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... |
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