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"Naughty Blue Eyes"

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: The crew of the "Naughty Blue Eyes" poses in front of their warplane, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, after the Alexishafen mission. The nose art of a littl...
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B-24 Warplane Navigator

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Navigator Lieutenant Paul Seramur of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses in front of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane after the Alexishafen strike. The name ...
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Three War Correspondents

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: View looking up at three war correspondents, (left to right), Robert Doyle of the Milwaukee Journal, Bob Eunson of Associated Press and Ralph Boyce ...
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Warplane at Wards Drome

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Ralph Boyce of YANK, the Army Weekly magazine, looks up at damage to a warplane at Wards Drome (5 Mile), an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea (...
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Four War Correspondents in a Warplane

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Four war correspondents, (left to right), Robert Doyle of the Milwaukee Journal, an unknown man, Ralph Boyce of YANK Army Weekly magazine and...
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"Windy City Kitty"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th...
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"Connell's Special"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Crew Chief Master Sergeant Harold Kuba of Appleton, Wisconsin, leans out of the cockpit window of his warplane. The nose art, "Connell's Special" appears o...
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Pluto and Soldier

Date: 10 18 1943
Description: Mechanic Staff Sergeant Raymond Wagner of Boscobel, Wisconsin, poses shirtless while holding a cigarette and standing next to the nose art on his Consolida...
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Ordnance Men

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Michigan soldiers loading bombs onto a trailer at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names, left to right,...
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Soldier Seated on Nose of Warplane

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Armament Chief Sergeant Lloyd Cleary sits on the nose of a warplane with his feet on the propeller at an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present da...
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"On Wisconsin" Jeep

Date: 12 14 1943
Description: Ordnance Lieutenant Elroy Derksen of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, glances up from writing on papers laying on the hood of his jeep at a military base in New Guine...
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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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General Eisenhower and General Marshall

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with General George C. Marshall at an airfield in Paris, France. The man behind Marshall's elbow is Senior Advisor to P...
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General Eisenhower and General Marshall

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with General George C. Marshall at an airfield in Paris, France. On the left are more officers. Several photographers a...
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Three Generals and a Justice

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: General Dwight D. Eisenhower (SHAEF commander) poses with (left to right) General George C. Marshall (Army Chief of Staff), Justice James F. Byrnes (Senior...
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Three Men from Milwaukee Journal

Date: 03 1945
Description: From the caption that accompanied the image: "Fellow workers in civilian life, these Milwaukeeans met recently on Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall islands. ...
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Interviewing a Group of Soldiers

Date: 1944
Description: Robert Doyle interviews a group of nine soldiers at an airfield. They are standing in front of an airplane (tentatively identified as a Douglas C-47 Skytra...

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