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| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A log constructed blockhouse for machine gun emplacement surrounded by trees. In front of the fortification are four men posed standing. They are possibly ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a blockhouse constructed out of logs and camouflaged by attaching pine tree branches on and around the fortification. This particular fort... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of dugout machine gun emplacement. There is a solider standing outside on the left, while another man sits inside. The fortification appears ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over slashed timber towards the edge of the defenses, with camouflaged blockhouse in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men stand behind a heavily camouflaged machine gun emplacement in a forested area. On the far right a uniformed solider is sitting up in a tree. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Blockhouse fortification under construction in a forested area. There are two uniformed soldiers standing on the right. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed soldiers in the process of constructing Blockhouse No. 8 with logs and earth. The area appears to overlook a ravine. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Looking up at Blockhouse No. 4 while under construction. Trees around the constructions site are being used to provide camouflage. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking up hill towards Blockhouse No. 1 that is constructed from timbers and earth. The fortification appears to be partially constructed into the to... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four soldiers standing around a bomb-poof shelter, which received four direct hits from Bolshevik artillery without any damage. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two British soldiers posing in a trench. The soldier on the right is manning an air-cooled Vickers light machine gun, and the soldier on the left is holdin... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Painting of Fort Hamilton propped outdoors on a woodpile. An oval inset painting at the top commemorates is titled: "Col. Hamilton Leaving For The Gold Fie... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View of field with a damaged blockhouse constructed of logs, and a smaller outbuilding in the distance. It appears the roof of the fortification has sustai... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A three inch trench mortar entrenchment, surrounded by piles of logs and barbed wire fence going beyond the log fortification into a forested area. Two sol... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View through stumps and trees of a group of soldiers, possibly French, posing outside a blockhouse constructed of logs. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View through stumps and trees of a group of French and British soldiers posing outside a blockhouse constructed of logs. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The headquarters and blockhouse of the Unites States Artillery on the Dvina River, showing five uniformed men standing outdoors, and an artillery piece par... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A blockhouse fortification built using a timber frame and large stones, with sandbags stacks near the entrance. There appear to be a wires strung along pol... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers and officers pose next to an artillery piece within a sheltered area. The shelter is fortified with sandbags and camouflaged with branc... |
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