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Lieutenant Leo F. Kosak

Date: 07 08 1944
Description: Navy Lieutenant Leo F. Kosak prior to reporting for active duty in Tucson, Arizona.
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USO-Travelers Aid Award Ceremony Participants

Date: 03 19 1944
Description: USO-Travelers Aid award ceremony featuring Katheryn Heringer, medical social worker at the Bureau of Handicapped Children and Orthopedic Hospital; Lieut. J...
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Jimmy Hanson

Date: 05 12 1944
Description: Portrait of Boatswain mate first class Jimmy Hanson, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Hanson, 1215 Buckeye Road. The article in which the photograph appears details ...
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Lieutenant William Briggs

Date: 05 26 1944
Description: Portrait of Lieutenant William Briggs prior to leaving Madison for New York and a Navy assignment. Before serving in the Navy, he was the county welfare di...
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Captain Arthur S. Adams

Date: 05 29 1944
Description: Captain Arthur S. Adams, director of the Navy's administration division of training, with from left to right: Commander Leslie K. Pollard and University Pr...
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Kenneth Strauss

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Portrait of Kenneth Strauss, chief gunners mate with the US Navy, on leave with his parents. Strauss is a former employee of the Wisconsin State Journal...
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Wrapping Christmas Packages

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Mrs. Don Wheeler wrapping a package for mailing at the USO Center for Glen Barnes, a V-12 student at the University of Wisconsin Naval Training School.
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Lieut. Albert L. David with Souvenirs

Date: 07 25 1945
Description: Lieut. Albert L. David showing his wife, Georgia, the souvenirs he brought from the capture of the German U-505 underseas craft. He stood two days and nigh...
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Leroy L. Dalton Receiving Navy Air Medal Award

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Leroy L. Dalton, (in a hosptial bed at left) shown receiving the United States Navy Air Medal for meritorious achievement during his fifth mission as a gun...
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Leroy L. Dalton Receiving Navy Air Medal Award

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Leroy L. Dalton,(in a hosptial bed at left,)shown receiving the United States Navy Air Medal for meritious achievement during his fifth mission as a gunne...
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UW Military and ROTC Officers and Wives

Date: 10 02 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin Military and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) commanding officers and their wives at a fall social party held in their h...
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Navy League Dinner

Date: 10 27 1948
Description: Group portrait of men at the speaker's table for the banquet that climaxed Navy Day observance. Seated left to right are: Rear Admiral E.W. Hanson, command...
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Naval Officers and Wives Club

Date: 11 16 1948
Description: Naval Officers and Wives Club annual Christmas dinner dance featuring a Hawaiian Christmas theme, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Loraine. Making tabl...
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Madison Navy Recruiting Center Receiving Award

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Navy recruiters of the Madison sub-station are presented a banner and certificate of merit for leading the Chicago area district in number of enlistments f...
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Officials Planning the Wisconsin-Navy Football Game

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: Wisconsin athletic director Harry Stuhldreher, with head coach Ivan Williamson, conferring with their counterparts from the United States Naval Academy, Ca...
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Navy Officers & Wives Club

Date: 11 22 1949
Description: Mary Beach (left), social chairman; Mrs. George Kane, President; and Arabelle Murphy, chairman of the Christmas party making decorations for the annual for...
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United States Naval Reserve Party

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Bruce McKown explains the workings of a steering gear indicator to Jane Gehrke of Waterloo at the United States Naval Reserve Surface Division 9-212 surpri...
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United States Naval Reserve Party

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Carl Syvertsen explains the surface search radar apparatus to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Timothy Brown and Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson at the Uni...
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United States Naval Reserve Party

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Charles H. Haynie, executive officer, and Arthur G. Field (right), commanding officer of the reserve unit, are shown serving food to Hobert & Donna Frank ...
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United States Naval Reserve Party

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Naval Reserve sailors Ralph Bakken (left), and Richard J. Nelson show a ship's maneuvering or plotting board to Irene Strand, second from the left, and Kay...

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