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| Date: | 01 17 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Smoke rising from Cezembre Island, just north of Saint-Malo on the north coast of France. The island, which took a tremendous shelling, can barely be seen ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | View of the attack on Brest, France, an important Channel port, from German forces on Hill 105. Eventually, after a fierce defense, the Germans surrendered... |
| 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: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Rubble and destruction in Brest, France. A few trees and a sign are still standing. Bombed-out buildings are in the background. Robert Doyle's caption read... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Allied soldier posing in Brest, France, in front of a bombed-out building, smoking a cigarette. The street is covered with rubble. |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 29 1944 |
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| Description: | A German warning sign nailed to a tree trunk. Just beyond the sign are dragon's teeth, concrete pyramids put in to stop tanks, on the Siegfried Line, a lin... |
| Date: | 10 29 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 1943 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 02 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the field where Pickett's charge took place during the Battle of Gettysburg. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The 8th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Marker at Vicksburg National Military Park features a sculpture of the eagle "Old Abe" on the side. The monument is m... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a military trench near Hecken in the Alsace region of northeastern France. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the Commercial Hotel in Columbus, New Mexico, destroyed in a raid by Pancho Villa and his men from Mexico. The ruins are guarded by a soldier. |
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| Description: | A traveling field hospital assisting soldiers on the battlefield. One man in the center is handing out canes. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A man is driving a team of two horses pulling a wagon on a street in front of a ruined church. Rubble is piled in front of another building on the right. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Soldiers posing standing amidst the ruins of destroyed buildings in Sabac, Serbia. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A Serbian freight train with provisions that had been bombarded by the Austrians and later burned completely. |
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