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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle crouches on the ground as she takes a photograph of a Marine at the San Diego Recruit Depot. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Front view of Dickey Chapelle shooting photographs of two Marines, who are shown from the back. |
| Date: | 05 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Freddy Fleury, 14, of 210 N. Paterson Street, talks over plans for his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer with Master Sgt. Wilfred W. Wall at the U.S. Army & Air Fo... |
| Date: | 06 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Five Madison recent high school graduates prior to traveling to Chicago for entrance into the U.S. Navy under the high school training program. From left a... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A uniformed Marine stands beside an International U.S. Marine Corps recruiting trailer to speak to two men. The original caption describes the interior fea... |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Mayor George Forster, far left, looks on as Col. Robert D. Montagne of General Mitchell Field, Milwaukee, also at left, administers the oath of enlistment ... |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Pvt. Tom Voigt, Ixonia (at right), one of forty-seven "Operation Badger" Air Force recruits sworn in at Madison, shakes hands with his father, Ray Voigt (r... |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Pvt. Gregory Becker, Beaver Dam (left), leader of the forty-seven "Operation Badger" Air Force recruits, is presented with numerous gifts to present (inclu... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A recruit receives inoculations from two men on the left at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. |
| Date: | 05 05 1918 |
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| Description: | Send off for World War I recruits at the railroad station. The man leaning out of the train window is Ben Bergor, a professional magician and vaudeville pe... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of men from Washington County posed with flags leaving for Camp Grant and Army training for service in the first World War. |
| Date: | 05 06 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of 32 draftees pose on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse before leaving Baraboo for Columbus Barracks in Ohio. There are paper tags attached ... |
| Date: | 05 27 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of more than 70 draftees poses on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse on the day they left Baraboo for Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Most... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men from Company "C" are lined up in a double row on a dirt town street. A soldier in uniform stands at the head of the line. In front are Ed Fryk (2nd fro... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of a group of men in suits sitting on benches and looking at a man in a dress uniform, who has his arms crossed. Poster text ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of a group of Marine recruits posing with their rifles. Some are holding signs that read: "IF YOU DONT [sic] KNOW YOU GET KIL... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of sailors smiling and waving their caps from the back of a truck marked U.S. Navy. Poster text reads: "THE NAVY AND THE ROAD... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of a group of men, sailors and soldiers standing in the back of a truck in New York. Man of the men are dressed in suits. Tex... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German Army recruits, still in civilian clothing, taking a meal break. |
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