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| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers standing in front of a building while being decorated. Captioned: "Three French stretcher-bearers being decorated for bravery. Vaux Varennes... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Image of Captain Cassin Young after having received the Medal of Honor. Captain Young received the medal for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor,... |
| Date: | 09 28 1967 |
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| Description: | The bronze star is awarded posthumously to Private First Class Thomas E. Broome for bravery in action in Vietnam. Broome's father Stanley Broome is accepti... |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms receiving the Milwaukee Journal Outstanding Soldier Award. |
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| Description: | His Excellency Freiherr von Scheffer-Boyadel, recipient of the Order Pour le Merite with oak leaves. An army commander in the East, he is seen here with hi... |
| Date: | 12 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Truax Base commander, Col. Frederick J. Nelander, after presenting the Purple Heart and the Air Medal to Lt. Edward G. Izbicky. The airman won the decorati... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The visit of the Czar of Bulgaria to the Austrian headquarters. The Czar is decorating an Austrian corporal who single-handedly held a fighting position in... |
| Date: | 08 1896 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of a man wearing a suit and tie, with three medals pinned to his chest. This is Dr. Joseph Bellamy Whiting, who was a physician in ... |
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| Description: | Vietnam veteran Rusty Sachs throwing a medal he was awarded. |
| Date: | 08 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Lenoda Graewin pins a bar on the uniform of her fiance, James Schmitz, during the University of Wisconsin ROTC graduation ceremony at the Memorial Union. |
| Date: | 09 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the 327th Fighter Grouop stationed at Truax Field honor Lt. Col. Lynn R. Mapes (L) and Capt. Merwin L. Tram (R). Mapes is retiring after 28 yea... |
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| Description: | Portrait of United States Army Air Force General George C. Kenney. He is wearing a dress uniform and cap. The handwritten inscription reads: "To Ed Sulliva... |
| Date: | 08 1900 |
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| Description: | Handwritten text on back reads: "Mr. Prescott and Mr. Damon at Old Soldier's Home, Madison, Wisc." The building behind the men appears to actually be the t... |
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