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| Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Indigenous men stand by a tail section as they watch planes take off and land at the Kiriwina Airfield on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p... |
| Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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| Description: | A soldier and four indigenous men shade their eyes as they watch planes take off and land at the Kiriwina Airfield on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, N... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Howard Pagel (left) of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and Captain Walter King (right) of Waco, Texas, stand together in front of the airfield aid station at t... |
| Date: | 08 29 1943 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin cousins, (left) Corporal Englund Johnson, bomber waist gunner, of Park Falls and (right) Sergeant Donald Englund, airplane engine mechanic, o... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Trucks at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, wait while paratroopers prepare to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfie... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Military aircraft at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. The aircraft in the foreground is named ... |
| Date: | 10 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Tail of a Lodestar aircraft at Townsville Airfield, Queensland, Australia. The Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar was a passenger transport aircraft of the World W... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| 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,... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Michigan soldiers pose in front of a trailer loaded with bombs at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names... |
| Date: | 01 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Military trucks, jeeps and planes at the Lae Airstrip, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Lae was a Japanese occupied airstrip until September 16, ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers relax and wait for flights at the Nadzab Air Freight building. One soldier leans on the corner of the building. Another soldier, possibly Major Me... |
| Date: | 06 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Major Daniel M. Lewis looks up at aircraft contrails at Royal Air Force station Steeple Morden, located 3.5 miles west of Royston, Hertfordshire, England. ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Map of Richard I. Bong Air Force Base Military Reservation includes vicinity map, state index, segment index, and tract register of acquisition after 1 Jul... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Nuclear Missile Silo Vigil & Requiem. Hundreds of people surround the fence, holding hands, in opposition to the new MX missiles being installed, missiles ... |
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