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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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CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
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Helicopter Landing on Aircraft Carrier

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Description: A CH-37 Mojave helicopter landing on an aircraft carrier. This helicopter type could carry 26 troops or two jeeps. It was used for aircraft recovery in Vie...
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Aircraft Carrier Landing

Date: 1950
Description: A crewman on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier signals to the pilot of an incoming U.S. Marine Corps CH-34 Choctaw helicopter. The landing was photographed by M...
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M*A*S*H Helicopters

Date: 1960
Description: Bell Model 47 light observation helicopters during a training exercise at Fort Benning, Georgia. One of the most popular helicopters ever built, the Model ...
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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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Execution by Firing Squad

Date: 1957
Description: Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Alg...
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Doctor with Refugee Child in Algeria

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught...
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Chapelle with Algerians

Date: 1957
Description: Dickey Chapelle sitting with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria drinking tea.
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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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Unexploded Aerial Bomb

Date: 08 1957
Description: A group of men from the National Liberation Front (FLN) show an unexploded aerial bomb to Dickey Chapelle, demonstrating NATO involvement in the war.
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Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.
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U.S. Special Forces

Date: 1961
Description: View from rear of several shirtless soldiers running up a hill towards an Air America chopper about to land with a new supply of American soldiers in Ban H...
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel Castro is seated with his constant companion Celia Sanchez, and Vilma Espin, who sits to Castro's left. Cuba.
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Eddie Mathews

Date: 06 19 1965
Description: Portrait of Milwaukee Braves third baseman Eddie Mathews. The Baseball Hall of Fame inductee batted .251 in 1965 with 32 home runs and 95 RBI.
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"The Ox" Performing on Stage

Date: 1968
Description: Rock trio, "The Ox," performing on stage. The guitarist and bassist are on an elevated platform next to a stack of amplifiers, while the drummer is set up ...
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"The Ox" Performing on Stage

Date: 1968
Description: Rock trio, "The Ox," performing on stage. The guitarist and bassist are on an elevated platform next to a stack of amplifiers while the drummer is set up o...
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Soldiers with Wreckage

Date: 1958
Description: Soldiers of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution stand next to a pile of wreckage in a rural area holding guns.
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Dead Soldier

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Description: Dead soldier in a glass fronted coffin during the Cuban Revolution.
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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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