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On the Right of Our Line

Date: 1863
Description: Stereograph of Culp's Hill at the site of the Gettysburg Battlefield. A man in a light-colored coat (may be Mathew Brady) is sitting on a boulder in the ce...
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In the Year of the Pig

Date: 03 25 1954
Description: Note on the back: "Defenders dig in. Dien Bien Phu, Indochina: An airport once covered this area where soldiers have dug deep trenches as protection from b...
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Enemy Cannon

Date: 09 29 1943
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...
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Wisconsin Soldiers at Saidor with Enemy Marine Caps

Date: 01 02 1944
Description: Robert Doyle's caption reads, "Wisconsin artillerymen hold Japanese caps they found a few minutes after landing at Saidor, New Guinea. Left to right are Wa...
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Michigan Soldiers and Captured Japanese Machine Gun

Date: 01 18 1944
Description: Six soldiers from Michigan pose with a captured Japanese gun. It may be a Japanese 12.7-mm (Fixed Mount) Aircraft Machine Gun. The soldiers were stationed ...
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Wisconsin Soldiers and Captured Japanese Machine Gun

Date: 01 17 1944
Description: Eight soldiers from Wisconsin pose with a captured Japanese gun. It may be a Japanese 12.7-mm (Fixed Mount) Aircraft Machine Gun. The soldiers were station...
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Soldiers and Howitzer near Brest

Date: 09 10 1944
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 ...
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Allied Soldier in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Allied soldier posing in Brest, France, in front of a bombed-out building, smoking a cigarette. The street is covered with rubble.
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Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
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Destroyed Post Office in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Two soldiers in the lower left look at a map. Behind them is what remains of the Brest Post Office. Just under the decorative stone cornice at the top is t...
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Robert Doyle on the German Border

Date: 10 29 1944
Description: Robert Doyle stands with one foot resting on a railroad track on the border between Germany and Belgium. A sign on the right reads "Entering Germany." Behi...
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Robert Doyle in Pillbox

Date: 01 1943
Description: Robert Doyle emerges from a captured Japanese pillbox at Buna, New Guinea, (present day Papua New Guinea). The pillbox is built of dirt, logs and foliage.
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Buna Immediately After Capture

Date: 01 02 1943
Description: Handwritten on the back of the print, "Buna, immediately after capture by Yanks and Aussies." Two men stand in the center amid the destruction of the jungl...
Print

Everything Changed But The Paint

Date: 1944
Description: Advertisement with color illustrations for the 1943 "prime mover" reads: "1941 Nothing changed but the paint Everything changed but the paint 1943". The po...
Poster

On Ne Passe Pas!

Date: 1918
Description: French wartime poster commemorating the Second Battle of the Marne (1918) and challenging the "white peace," a proposed 1917 French capitulation to Germany...
Poster

Team Work Will Win the War!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon panel in which Uncle Sam is riding on a wagon pulled by two horses, with text that reads "— Over Here —, and on the right near s...
Poster

Go Over The Top With The Tank That Will Win The War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of two soldiers, labeled: "Wage Payer and Wage Earner," standing on top of a tank riding over a trench. The tank is labele...
Poster

The Test of Our Loyalty is the Measure of Our Sacrifice

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon illustration titled: "Where Do You Stand," with a large red question mark over the image. To the left of the question mark, a so...
Poster

Za Naši Samostatnost!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a Czechoslovak soldier throttling a German soldier at night. They are illuminated by a flare, or perhaps a tracer round...
Poster

Boh do Krivdy Hromom

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man with a musket and a handaxe charging at three fleeing soldiers, while red lightning flashes from dark storm cloud...

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