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Fita Fita Guard Riflemen Marching

Date: 02 28 1945
Description: Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Fita Fita guard turns out daily at 8:00 a.m. for color raising cer...
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The Fita Fita Band

Date: 02 28 1945
Description: Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Fita Fita guard turns out daily at 8:00 a.m. for color raising cer...
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Islands Near Pago Pago

Date: 02 28 1945
Description: Robert Doyle notes, "Strange island near Pago Pago." He was on Tutuila Island, in American Samoa, in the South Pacific. Palm trees are growing on the shore...
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Homemade Motorboat on the Beach

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: A homemade motorboat on the beach on Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific. Robert Doyle notes that "belly tanks" were used in the boat construction. A buildin...
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Indigenous Woman Poses with NATS Crew

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: An indigenous woman poses with NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific. She is wearing a flowered lava l...
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Douglas C-54 Skymaster Aircraft

Date: 03 06 1945
Description: An ATC (Air Transport Command) Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft is being loaded by two soldiers at the air base on Kwajalein Island of the Marshall Islands ...
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Officer Reading the Milwaukee Journal

Date: 03 21 1945
Description: Major James Baird of Suring, Wisconsin, reads the Milwaukee Journal in Robert Doyle's quarters on Guam in the South Pacific.
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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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Caution Sign and Dragon's Teeth

Date: 10 29 1944
Description: A German warning sign nailed to a tree trunk. Just beyond the sign are dragon's teeth, concrete pyramids put in to stop tanks, on the Siegfried Line, a lin...
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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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Robert Doyle taking Photo of General MacArthur

Date: 12 14 1943
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 ...
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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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Royal Papuan Constabulary

Date: 01 1943
Description: The Royal Papuan Constabulary stands at attention with their weapons in the Port Moresby area, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The constabulary ...
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Happy Days!

Date: 1944
Description: A photograghic card created by Robert Doyle to wish friends and family "Iamu Mwasawa!" A smiling, quarter-length portrait of Robert Doyle in uniform appear...
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Indigenous Men Build Hospital

Date: 11 10 1942
Description: Without nails, wire or rope, indigenous men build a large structure for an American hospital unit headed by Major Stanley Hollenbeck of Milwaukee, Wisconsi...
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Indigenous Boys Help Soldiers

Date: 1942
Description: Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ...
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Beach Landing

Date: 11 1942
Description: Soldiers land on the beach in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They use collapsible canvas boats to ferry men and equipment from small coastal ve...
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Two Consolidated B-24 Liberator Warplanes

Date: 10 13 1943
Description: Aerial view of two Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplanes taken from another airplane during the Alexishafen strike. On the left is Colonel Arthur Rogers' l...
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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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Posing By the Swimming Hole

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Three officers of General Walter Krueger's staff stand on a log in front of a swimming hole located on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p...

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