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Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field

Date: 09 10 1944
Description: Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County, with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are sitting in the fore...
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Coleman Wedding Party

Date: 06 12 1945
Description: Group portrait of Coleman wedding party. The groom is in a WWII uniform.
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Four Madison Returning GIs

Date: 06 20 1945
Description: Group portrait of four Madison GIs (Blackhawks) who rode from Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, to their doorsteps in Madison in a Wisconsin State Journal...
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Who's New Club Picnic

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Picnickers at a Who's New Club Picnic opening their box lunches: Lieut. and Mrs. Ivor Callaway; Chaplain and Mrs. Edwin B. Nylen; Mrs. Ralph Ebert and her ...
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Charles "Chick" Lowe Receiving Award

Date: 06 27 1945
Description: Charles "Chick" Lowe receiving an award from Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, president of the Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company, and Eddie Krajnik, Phila...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Pfc. Arthur Lovinger, passenger in the front seat; Staff Sgt. Robert Hanke, passenger in the back seat; and Staff Sgt. Louis Kaminsky, driving a car. They ...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Four soldiers, one with liquor bottle and two others with noisemakers, standing on the Capitol Square. They are celebrating V-J Day, August 15, the day on ...
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Soldiers at Shrivenham

Date: 1946
Description: U.S. soldiers are sitting on the ground between classes at Shrivenham. The school at Shrivenham was operated by the Army after the end of the war, and thi...
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Food Cart

Date: 1946
Description: American soldier purchasing something from a food cart, a scene photographed by conservationist Sigurd Olson while traveling in Europe immediately after th...
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Going Home

Date: 1946
Description: Soldiers waiting to board ship for their return home after World War II.
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Enroute to Class

Date: 1946
Description: Conservationist Sigurd F. Olson, who was on a special military teaching assigment, took this picture of U.S. troops in Berlin marching to his lecture. Bomb...
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MP Headquarters

Date: 1946
Description: Headquarters of Company C of the 793rd Military Police Battalion in post-World War II Germany. Although the location is not identified, Sigurd F. Olson, wh...
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Bomb Throwers

Date: 05 09 1939
Description: Italian gas bomb throwers, wearing their gas masks, riding in a truck during a parade for the anniversary of the founding of the Italian Empire in Rome. Th...

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