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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Marine and bayonet silhouetted in a fiery blast of napalm. Taken during a napalm testing maneuver at Camp Pendleton. |
| Date: | 09 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Drawing submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "A Sturdy, Timely Toy For Your Youngster. General Jeep." Features a drawing of four... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) looking at the World Trade Center site shortly after the 9/11 attacks. With Obey is Florida Congressman Bill Yo... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the intersection of Vesey Street and the West Side Highway, ground zero fo... |
| 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: | 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: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Chinese National marine crawls on his stomach beneath barbed wire in an infiltration training course in Formosa. Another man is on the right. The course in... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | An explosive is detonated by an instructor between rows of crawling Vietnamese Sea Swallow trainees at Binh Hung. The training was intended to teach them t... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German aerial bombardment of Antwerp through the use of zeppelin airships. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Results of a direct hit from a German 180mm artillery shell in Antwerp. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Soldiers repairing a bridge near Merxen, Belgium. |
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| Description: | Austrian heavy artillery piece or mortar at the moment of firing. |
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| Description: | Workers repairing a stone viaduct that had been demolished. View of the site of the explosion and the serpentine road. |
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