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| Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the USS Wisconsin Silver Presentation ceremony, with the ship's guns in the foreground. |
| Date: | 05 15 1919 |
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| Description: | Navy seaplanes NC-1 and (in the foreground) NC-3 at Trepassay Bay, the jumping off point for the first attempt to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Not in the... |
| Date: | 05 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Physical exercise aboard an aircraft carrier during World War II. This photograph was a part of a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. La Follette, former gove... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ... |
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| Description: | A CH-37 Mojave helicopter landing on an aircraft carrier. This helicopter type could carry 26 troops or two jeeps. It was used for aircraft recovery in Vie... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Coast guardsmen shuttle landing craft back and forth from the anchorage to the beach of Eniwetok Atoll, bringing in fighters and s... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marines unloading equipment and vehicles from supply ships at Guam beach. International M-5-H-65 trucks are in the background. |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors clear the stern of the battleship USS West Virginia in berth F-6 at Pearl Harbor, most likely after it was hit by at least a few of the 7 to... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The forward magazines of the USS Shaw exploding after a Japanese bomb set the fore aflame as it sat in dock at Pearl Harbor. The midships and stern ... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Capsized USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. The Oklahoma was hit with a large number of Japanese aerial torpedoes which ripped an opening across ... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The USS Nevada in berth at Pearl Harbor with the USS Shaw burning in the background after its forward deck was hit with a Japanese bomb. |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The remains of the USS Cassin and the USS Downes floating in front of the USS Pennsylvania in dock at Pearl Harbor. On the left is th... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors in a motor launch attempt a rescue of survivors from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia during or shortly after the... |
| Date: | 10 22 1943 |
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| Description: | View across water of Mushu Island in the distance. There is a ship in the foreground, an airplane above, and the appearance of explosions in the water. |
| Date: | 04 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of three TBF's (all above the horizon) and eleven SBD's, which participated in Pacific Fleet's carrier-strike against Japan's bases in the Pala... |
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| Description: | USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II. |
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| Description: | View from the USS Wisconsin making contact with two destroyers at sea. The ships are transferring fuel. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 36, "Periscope." The poster features a Japanese battle ship under attack as seen through a periscope. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 33, "Periscope View - 4th War Loan." The poster features a Japanese battle ship under attack as seen through a periscope. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 29, "Wedding." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is a dark naval battle commencing on stormy waters. On the right... |
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