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Launching Rockets During Battle of Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima.
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Bong and MacArthur

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: General Douglas MacArthur congratulates Richard I. Bong, World War II Ace of Aces from Poplar, Wisconsin, after awarding him the Congressional Medal of Hon...
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Blood Transport

Date: 03 1945
Description: Loading crates of blood at Falalop Island. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle that document the care of the wounded...
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TAG Operations, WWII

Date: 03 1945
Description: TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the ...
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Medal Ceremony

Date: 08 1945
Description: The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay held on Tinian Island after they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, B-29...
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Marines Using International TD-9 Tractor to Search for the Enemy

Date: 1944
Description: Two U.S. Marines using an International TD-9 diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and bulldozer to search for Japanese soldiers on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, ...
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Marines Looking for Japanese Soldiers with TD-9 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Marines using an International TD-9 diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and bulldozer to hunt Japanese soldiers on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Island...
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Marines Search for Enemy with International TD-9 Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines searching for Japanese soldiers with an International TD-9 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and bulldozer on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marsh...
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Marines Unload Field Gun at Rendova

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using an International Harvester TD-9 diesel TracTracTor to unload a field gun from an LST boat on the beach at Rendova. Original caption read...
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Marines Using Crawler Tractor on Landing Craft

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using an International TD-9 diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) with a Bucyrus Erie shovel on an LCM (Landing Craft, Materiel) at Roi during ...
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International TD-9 Diesel Crawler Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Soldiers, supplies and an International TD-9 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) on a beach at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II....
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World War I Training

Date: 08 1917
Description: World War I recruits scramble over an obstacle during their training, while others watch in the background.
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Mock Artillery Battery

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Description: Stereograph of a mock battery erected by the 79h New York Volunteer Artillery at Seabrook Point, Coosaw River.
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Protective Gear for Mosquitos

Date: 07 30 1917
Description: For these World War I recruits seen at an unidentified training camp on Long Island, the enemy was not the Germans, but ferocious "Jersey mosquitos" and th...
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Loading Wounded onto Ship

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Description: Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima.
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Unloading Marine Supplies

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and dozer shovel loader to unload supplies on a beach. A ship is in the background. The ori...
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Soldier Shoveling Mud Off Crawler Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The...
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World War II Foxhole at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three dogs near a sandbagged foxhole during the battle of Iwo Jima. A marine is near another dog behind the foxhole. Wooden boxes in the foreground have wr...
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Marines at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three marines dressed in uniform, carrying packs and holding guns, pull an ammunition cart through the water towards the beach at Iwo Jima. Military boats ...
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Marine Casualties at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ...

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