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| Date: | 10 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Former P.O.W. George R. Hansen posing for a photograph after a football game between Wisconsin and Marquette at Camp Randall. The game climaxed a day of ho... |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Memorial Day, "Poppy Day," Committee. Three men in uniform stand for a group portrait in front of a stucco wall. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h... |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | A crowd of civilians attending a Nazi rally in Danzig. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Congressmen David R. Obey of Wisconsin and Ed Koch of New York meeting with King Hussein of Jordan during a congressional tour of the Middle East. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A veteran leans forward, perhaps to better hear the proceedings, at the dedication of the Korean War Veterans Memorial of Wisconsin. The (out of focus) spe... |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Major General William Hanson Gill awards the Distinguished Service Cross to Staff Sergeant Milan Miljatovich of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at Camp Cable, near B... |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star Medal recipients at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin heroes in the Papuan campaign, a group of five award recipients at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Left to right are Staff Sergeant Milan M... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle admires the golden oak leaf of Major Post's collar insignia. They are standing in front of the tail assembly of a plane similar to Post's. Maj... |
| Date: | 04 30 1945 |
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| Description: | An autographed quarter-length portrait of Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz in his office at CinCPac/CinCPOA Advanced Headquarters on Guam. He is standi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Seated portrait of an elderly army man, partially in uniform, with medals on his jacket. |
| Date: | 05 1980 |
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| Description: | Louie Beck was the last World War I veteran of Theresa's American Legion Post. Mr. Beck passed away in December 1980. |
| Date: | 03 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Kathleen Rueber and her four children receive the special medal awarded to her late husband, Gerhardt, for his service. Presenting the medal to Kathleen Ru... |
| Date: | 05 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Menu for a state dinner in honor of General Nathan F. Twining, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. The front cove... |
| Date: | 12 29 1964 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin Air National Guard officers shown receiving promotions at a ceremony at the Truax Officers Club. Left to right: Col. Arlie Mucks, Jr., receiv... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Handwritten caption reads: "Sole Survivors, Class of 1866. U.S. Military Academy. Fiftieth Anniversary of Graduation." Twelve men are lined up in two rows ... |
| Date: | 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Robert Allen in his military uniform. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Three men and a colonel standing outside the entrance to a building after being decorated. Captioned: "Colonel Couillaud, saluting stretcher-bearers, the m... |
| 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... |
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