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War Correspondent Interviews Two Generals

Date: 07 16 1943
Description: Civilian war correspondent Robert Doyle interviewing Major General William Hanson Gill (left), and Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger (right), at Ca...
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Sad Shack Group

Date: 07 31 1943
Description: G. Robert Mowerson (left), Red Cross Director and Robert Doyle (third from left), War Correspondent, posing with Captain O.S. Allen of Columbus, Georgia, a...
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Doyle Filling Jeep with Gasoline

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: A smiling Robert Doyle holds the nozzle to the gas pump with one hand and gives the "thumbs up" sign with the other at the Kangaroo Korner Gas Station near...
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Enemy Cannon

Date: 09 29 1943
Description: Robert Doyle seated on a Japanese cannon in Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Battle of Buna-Gona took place between November 16th, 1942...
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Robert Doyle and Captain Money

Date: 11 05 1943
Description: Robert Doyle and Australian Captain William (Bill) A. Money, chat on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). In t...
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Admiring Major's Insignia

Date: 11 21 1943
Description: Robert Doyle admires the golden oak leaf of Major Post's collar insignia. They are standing in front of the tail assembly of a plane similar to Post's. Maj...
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Robert Doyle on Tank Landing Ship

Date: 01 02 1944
Description: Robert Doyle on a LST (Landing Ship, Tank) after the landing at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). He has binoculars in his hands.
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Robert Doyle Shaving

Date: 01 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle shaves while looking in a mirror suspended from a hammock with a rain tarp in the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New G...
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Roadside Stop in France

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: A roadside stop in Normandy, France. Three men are standing with a jeep. From left is Robert Doyle, war correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal. The...
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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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Contrasting Tans on Buster Island

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: The caption in the Milwaukee Journal, says it best, "From the far-off Pacific (somewhere on Kwajalein), the picture of Ensign Ray Hanson and Robert ...
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Robert Doyle and a Student

Date: 02 24 1945
Description: Robert Doyle poses next to a young woman from the London Missionary Society School, Tutuila Mission, located on Tutuila, American Samoa. She is wearing a w...
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Street Traders at Apia

Date: 02 25 1945
Description: Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ...
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Villagers Pose with Servicemen

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: Indigenous villagers pose with Robert Doyle (7th from left) and NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific....
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Robert Doyle and Indigenous Man

Date: 01 07 1943
Description: Text attached to a print made from the negative reads, "This photo of me with a Papuan native carrier was made near Buna early in January. This fellow with...
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Robert Doyle in Trash Box

Date: 07 1943
Description: Gag photo of Robert Doyle with his head seemingly sticking out of a box. Above the box is a sign that reads: "TRASH BOX." The box and sign are attached to ...
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Three Men and a Jeep

Date: 1944
Description: Group portrait of Robert Doyle, wearing a hat and pants, sitting at the wheel of a jeep along with a man in the passenger seat. Another man is leaning agai...
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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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Robert Doyle with His Gear

Date: 10 1942
Description: Robert Doyle poses outdoors with his gear, helmet and boots. He is standing in a field, with a tree on the left and woods in the background. A piece of she...
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Robert Doyle on the German Border

Date: 10 29 1944
Description: Robert Doyle stands with one foot resting on a railroad track on the border between Germany and Belgium. A sign on the right reads "Entering Germany." Behi...

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