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| Date: | 07 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Minocqua showing the surrounding lakes. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Navy SPD-1 bomber over Truk. Moen Island is in the foreground, Fefan is at the right, and Etan is directly below the plane. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Marines using an International TD-9 diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and bulldozer to hunt Japanese soldiers on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Island... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marines searching for Japanese soldiers with an International TD-9 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and bulldozer on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marsh... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marine Corps engineers excavating sand and rock with a steam shovel and a fleet of International trucks in the Pavuvu Islands. The International Harve... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marines using International crawler tractors (TracTracTors). The photo caption reads: "Marines 'mopping up' on Namur Island in the Marshalls use the... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the oldest Protestant... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the oldest Protestant... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from a pier of rowboats and a cabin at the Island Resort on Lake Ripley. |
| Date: | 10 22 1943 |
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| Description: | View across water of Mushu Island in the distance. There is a ship in the foreground, an airplane above, and the appearance of explosions in the water. |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin River from Cactus Bluff. |
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