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Four Women and Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and...
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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
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Remount Service Pack Train

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Camp Lewis, showing a pack train fitted out for a march.
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A view of a motor truck train at Camp Travis, named in 1917. The driver sits in the first truck while another man stands beside him.
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World War I Ambulance Company

Date: 1917
Description: Panoramic group portrait of the Wisconsin National Guard Ambulance Company No. 1 at Camp Douglas, together with its ambulances and motorcycles with sidecar...
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"Open Date"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: A pilot peers out of the window of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane has nose art depicting ...
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Hotel de Nemours

Date: 08 28 1944
Description: View across cobblestone street of a military jeep (marked "PRESS") is parked in front of the Hotel de Nemours, Rennes, France. Driving the jeep is Corporal...
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Horse-Drawn Wagon Bringing Supplies to the Front

Date: 1914
Description: View from side of street towards a boy sitting on top of a pile of supplies driving a horse-drawn wagon heading to the Front. A person is watching from the...
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Horse-Drawn Wagon Bringing Supplies to the Front

Date: 1914
Description: Men are standing on a city street near wagons carrying supplies to the front.
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Men Carrying Supplies for Repairing Bad Roads in Enemy Territory

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers and civilians carrying supplies for repairing bad roads in enemy territory during World War I.
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Road Behind the Yankee Line

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of the road behind the U.S. line of advance into Saint-Mihiel, jammed with troops and supplies.
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Ambulance on Bad Road

Date: 12 08 1918
Description: Soldiers looking at ambulance 4, 128th Ambulance Co. stuck on the worst hill on the road to the Rhine. 32nd Division between Buchel and Kaisersesck, German...
Poster

All Slackers to the Front!

Date: 1917
Description: Hand-drawn poster. At the bottom is a soldier with a pack and a rifle on his back, carrying a US flag, embracing a woman. At the top is a general with the ...
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Buying Refreshments from a Young Girl

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Description: German soldiers standing on a platform near a stopped troop train buying refreshments from a young girl.
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Battling a Cold Winter

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Description: As protection against the bitter cold of the Carpathian Mountains, the Austrian Army supply command delivers fur muffs for soldiers.
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Transporting Cattle for Slaughter

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Description: Transporting cattle for slaughter across the Dukla Pass.
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Sealing Tins of Meat for the Front

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Description: Preparing and sealing tins of meat to be provided to soldiers on the front.
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Catholic Mass

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Description: Interior view of a saloon car on an Austrian train, in which a Catholic mass is celebrated daily.
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Camel Caravan

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Description: Camel caravan moving through the desert.
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Flour Supply

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Description: Flour supply wagons in a semi-desert region.

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