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Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
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Officers Consult Map

Date: 1942
Description: Officers and non-commissioned officers squatting to consult a map on the ground near Fort Davis, Panama. The men are wearing fatigues and have sub-machine ...
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Indigenous Plant

Date: 12 02 1943
Description: An Intelligence Officer smiles as he holds an indigenous plant with fruit on it used for food. A building is behind him with two signs, "Operations" and "O...
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Allied Officers' Club

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: View from road of the exterior of the Allied Officers' Club in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). It is built on posts above the wate...
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Group of Army Men

Date: 1918
Description: Group portrait of men posing in tall grass in front of a wooden fence. On the left, standing, is a lieutenant, and the rest of the men are sergeants and pr...
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Soldiers Posing in Field

Date: 1918
Description: Group portrait of a lieutenant, (first on the left), and other soldiers in uniform from the 310th United States Army Engineers, standing, posing in a field...
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American Soldier Posing Outdoors

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of a unidentified uniformed first lieutenant in the United States 310th Engineer Corps standing in the grass next to a fence. ...
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American Soldier Posing

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of an unidentified uniformed captain in the United States 310th Engineer Corps standing in the grass next to a fence. The chev...
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American Soldier Posing

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of an unidentified uniformed first lieutenant in the United States 310th Engineer Corps standing in the grass next to a fence....
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Soldiers Awaiting Orders to Fire Artillery

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian artillerymen taking a break from the battle at a firing position on the southwestern battlefront in Tyrol. Some of the men are smoking. The troops...
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Building Barbed Wire Entanglements

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Description: Austrian officers are overseeing the building of a wall on the front. On the left side of the wall, soldiers are standing knee-deep in the water, construct...
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Soldiers in Front of Bunkers

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers post in front of the bunkers on the Italian front in the battle zone around Lavarone in South Tyrol. These are camouflaged artillery posi...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are building barbed wire entanglements in a lake reed bed on the southwestern battlefront in South Tyrol. One man holding a coil of wire ...
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Cactus Etching

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Description: Turkish officer etching his name into a cactus leaf as a remembrance.

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