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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Iwo Jima Airfield #1, as it appeared nine days after the initial assault. On the runway is a C-47 transport plane, the military equivalent of the DC-3. T... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Lester Maitland, who was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot from Milwaukee who served as aide to General Billy Mitchell during th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. ... |
| Date: | 06 1877 |
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| Description: | The Guppey Guard, a Wisconsin state militia unit, in formation on a street in Portage. |
| Date: | 07 1876 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the Park Hotel looking east to the corner of Carroll and Main Streets in Madison. Soldiers are in formation as a part of the centennial ... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Training exercise for South Vietnamese soldiers in helicopter deployment. This photograph of the early stages of American involvement in the war in Vietna... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Marines arriving at Soc Trang on a C-130 Hercules transport carrier. Soc Trang was an abandoned landing strip built by the Japanese during World War II. ... |
| 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: | 08 1945 |
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| Description: | The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Super Fortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This photograph was taken by Al... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Vernon Castle, half of the glamorous Castle dancing team, enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and flew over 150 missions at the Western Fron... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion at Truax Field. Armaments for this fighter included two air-to-air rockets capable of being armed with nuclear... |
| Date: | 11 08 1956 |
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| Description: | The first F-102 jet arrives at Truax Field. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A crewman on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier signals to the pilot of an incoming U.S. Marine Corps CH-34 Choctaw helicopter. The landing was photographed by M... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike), as commander-in-chief, inspects a soldier at an exhibition at Fort Benning. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | A photograph taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle on board a helicopter that was enroute to Vinh Quoi in the Delta Region of South Vietnam. The ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A photograph by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle of several Sikorsky CH-34A helicopters taken somewhere in South Vietnam. Because these heavy lifting... |
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| Description: | An unidentified image from the collection of Dickey Chapelle, a freelance photographer, shows a U.S. Marine on duty in the watchtower of a South Vietnamese... |
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