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| Date: | 04 04 1943 |
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| Description: | This student of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School is carefully measuring out a quantity of distilled water for a prescription. Distilled water is ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to pull an ammunition trailer from the mud. The original caption reads: "JAPANESE A... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Six Coastguardsmen pose with an officer on the shore at the Coast Guard Station at Baileys Harbor. The men are identified as (left to right) Reinhart Hicke... |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st... |
| Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Twin soldiers, Corporal John Kellner (left) and Private First Class Bob Kellner (right) of Milwaukee get a drink at the lister bag, in the camp on Goodenou... |
| Date: | 12 18 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle's caption that accompanied this image reads, "Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette, three times Governor of Wisconsin, poses in combat uni... |
| Date: | 12 18 1943 |
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| Description: | War Correspondent Robert Doyle and Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette, wearing combat uniform, chat while standing on a shoreline. Lieutenant Colonel... |
| Date: | 01 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Corporal Andrew Starkie of Chicago, Illinois, stands next to the flagpole on a LCV (Landing Craft, Vehicle) off of the coast of Saidor, New Guinea (present... |
| Date: | 02 22 1945 |
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| Description: | The batter swings at an exhibition baseball game on a Naval Base on Kwajalein Island of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. Both teams had Big Leagu... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tank fording a river. Two soldiers are standing in the hatches on the gun turret, with another soldier in a partially opened hatch below... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of war correspondents, soldiers and officers pose outdoors on the sand in front of palm trees for a portrait in Guam. Many are holding a beverage a... |
| Date: | 10 24 1943 |
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| Description: | Three officers of General Walter Krueger's staff stand on a log in front of a swimming hole located on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p... |
| Date: | 02 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Three U.W. students, Marty Christensen, Robert Falconer and Gary Schroeder, jumped out of an airplane over ice-covered Lake Mendota to advertise the politi... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a uniformed man, probably John Scott. Behind him is a boat on a body of water, and on the opposite shorelineis a town and hillside. Ta... |
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