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K-1 Coast Guard Truck on Beach

Date: 1943
Description: Two uniformed men sit inside an International K-1 U.S. Coast Guard truck parked on a beach while another man speaks to them through the open passenger door...
Photograph

Halavo Seaplane Base

Date: 1943
Description: Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base...
Poster

War Bonds in Action

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 26, "Invasion." The poster features ships landing on the coast and soldiers racing up the beach as explosions rain down around them.
Print

Christmas Greetings from Florida

Date: 1943
Description: Holiday card with two flamingos standing in a stream with water lilies. Palm trees are on the banks. The right edge is die cut.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Small Vessels Carry Supplies

Date: 1943
Description: Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ...
Postcard

Sailing — at College Camp

Date: 1943
Description: Photographic postcard view of a sailboat on Lake Geneva. A woman is standing on the deck. Caption reads: "Sailing — at College Camp, Wisconsin On Lak...
Photograph

Boats and Barges On the Mississippi

Date: 1943
Description: View across railroad tracks along the shorline of the Mississippi River towards the stern wheeled steamboat General Allen towing barges upriver at L...
Postcard

Sockness Park

Date: 1943
Description: Text on front reads: "Sockness Park, Rice Lake, Wis." A dirt road runs towards the lake, then curves to the left along the shoreline. Cottages, boathouses ...
Postcard

Rattlesnake Rock

Date: 1943
Description: Text on front reads: "Rattlesnake Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin River." On reverse: "Up stream from the Narrows, on the left bank, is Rattlesnake Rock. Look...

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