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Algerian Bedouin Boy

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Bedouin boy with a soldier. The boy is pledging that he will kill his father "with joy" if the father should serve the French forces in the gue...
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WWII Red Cross Worker

Date: 03 1945
Description: Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b...
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Inside Helicopter "Manhunt"

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Description: This photograph labeled only as "Manhunt" by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle shows the interior of a helicopter used during the early stages of U.S....
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Paratrooper Training

Date: 07 1963
Description: A view of special forces training taken by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle inside a C-47 transport plane. The photograph shows the preparations for ...
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Red Crescent Doctor and Injured Man

Date: 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor examining an injured man who is wrapped in bandages. They are in Algeria.
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Chapelle with Arm Band

Date: 03 1942
Description: Dickey Chapelle seated by an open window, wearing the correspondent arm band. Taken at time of her first recognition by the War Department as Look's...
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Dickey Chapelle with Children

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Description: Dickey Chapelle, with cameras around her neck, poses with three women and a group of children.
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Portrait of Young Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1942
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a young Dickey Meyer Chapelle posing in front of a fireplace mantel wearing a blouse and dress pants.
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Hospital Kitchen

Date: 02 1945
Description: Two men make coffee in a ramshackle hospital kitchen, which consisted of a single, improvised burner. The grill is the innards of a human blood shipping ca...
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Two Doctors with Wounded Man

Date: 02 1945
Description: Two doctors attend to a wounded man on a stretcher in Iwo Jima.
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Algerian Man and Young Boy

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Description: A man shows a little boy (his son?) a gun.
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Child with Injured Foot

Date: 08 1957
Description: A young Algerian girl has her foot treated by a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker in a tent. The man is wrapping the girl's foot in bandages. She ...
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Naval Air Station Waiting Room

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Description: Military personnel in the Naval Air Station waiting room. A sign on the wall reads: "Notice/ On this station salute/ square your hat/ hands out of pockets/...
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Self-Portait of Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1942
Description: Dickey Chapelle wearing correspondent armband and taking a self-portrait in mirror. Taken at time of her first recognition by War Department as "Look's" ph...
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Dickey Chapelle on the USS "Boxer"

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Description: Dickey Chapelle is sitting on the USS "Boxer" with cameras around her neck and luggage at her side.
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Injured Marine After Treatment

Date: 1945
Description: Private first class, John W. Hood, wearing dogtags smiles after a blood transfusion on the USS Samaritan in Iwo Jima. He is bandaged and is holding ...
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Doctor Tends to Wounded Man

Date: 02 1945
Description: Lt. Commander Leonard (Leo) Thelen, Commanding Officer of the hospital, taking the pulse of a Marine line officer whose legs have been injured by shrapnel.
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Franklin Hofele with Facial Wounds

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Description: Marine Franklin Hofele sits aboard the USS "Samaritan" with injuries.
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Cuban Revolution Infirmary

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Description: Cuban Revolution infirmary. A soldier holding a rifle sits on the floor next to a man in bed.
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USS Relief Surgery

Date: 04 1945
Description: View of the gloved hands of a pair of surgeons as they begin to operate on a patient in Japan. One person is holding a scalpel over a portion of an exposed...

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