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First to Fly — Army Demonstration

Date: 09 17 1908
Description: Soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia, watching Orville Wright demonstrate the Wright Brothers' airplane for the U.S. Army. Milwaukee's Billy Mitchell is said to...
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Pfc. Charles F. Moore and Cat Mascot

Date: 08 17 1946
Description: Pfc. Charles F. Moore with cat "Kwajie" who was the mascot of the B-29 airplane "Dave's Dream" and who made the trip over Bikini when the plane dropped the...
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Buy War Bonds for Fighting Power Today

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 25, "Blue Prints." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is an explosive battle scene in shades of dark blue. On the ...
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Buy War Bonds for Fighting Power Today... and Buying Power Tomorrow!

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 24, "Happy Family." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is a naval battle commencing on stormy waters in shades of ...
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Sigurd Olson Going Home

Date: 06 06 1946
Description: Sigurd F. Olson, standing, on a C-47 plane en route from Berlin to Frankfort, and then home to Minnesota.
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Soldiers Working on B-29 Bomber

Date: 03 1945
Description: Two men working on a B-29 bomber, just returned from its first fire raid on Tokyo. The men are on top of the plane, opening a hatch. They are both shirtles...
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Marine Aircraft Group Plane

Date: 03 1945
Description: Men working on a Marine Aircraft Group plane at Ulithi airport. One man is standing near the nose of the plan, looking inside. He is shirtless and wearing ...
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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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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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"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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"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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Car Leaving Airfield

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Many photographers take photos of a military automobile leaving an airfield in Paris, France. Robert Doyle notes "arrival of first plane US ATC (United Sta...
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Exhibition Baseball Game on Kwajalein Island

Date: 02 22 1945
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...
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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...
Poster

The Test of Our Loyalty is the Measure of Our Sacrifice

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon illustration titled: "Where Do You Stand," with a large red question mark over the image. To the left of the question mark, a so...

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