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| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Anthony R. Buzzelli opens an ammunition box with an axe for Marines battling on Iwo Jima. Another man on the right appears to be openin... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A machine gun crew running with their .30 machine gun. Two men in the foreground are wearing pants and helmets but no shirts, and are carrying a machine gu... |
| Date: | 09 29 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers with a 105mm Howitzer near Brest, France. Camouflage netting is over their heads. Names, (left to right) are Private First Class Thomas Greatorex ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian field artillery piece in Galicia at the moment of firing with the recoil of the firing tube blurred from movement. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers are unloading heavy artillery ammunition from the back of a truck in Galicia. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | An Austrian 305mm heavy mortar in firing position in Galicia. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian forward observers in Galicia for a 305mm mortar battery using a field telescope to confirm the firing coordinates. |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers are manning an artillery piece in a bunker on the battlefield in South Tyrol. The German caption states "We salute you again Italy" refe... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian artillerymen taking a break from the battle at a firing position on the southwestern battlefront in Tyrol. Some of the men are smoking. The troops... |
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| Description: | Turkish soldiers cleaning a cannon barrel on the front in Syria. |
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| Description: | Turkish gun crew practicing the emplacement of artillery into a firing position. |
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| Description: | Turkish field gun and crew ready for firing somewhere in Syria. |
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| Description: | View of a pit that formerly held a firing position for a 420 mm mortar. The pit was later filled with water so that spies would not be able to photograph a... |
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| Description: | Pit that formerly held a firing position for a 420 mm mortar. The pit was later filled with water so that spies would not be able to photograph and locate ... |
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| Description: | The highest battlefield in Europe — 3500 meters on the Tirolian border. A ski patrol must dress like polar explorers to protect themselves against the bit... |
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