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| Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the official Silver Presentation Delegation on board the USS "Wisconsin". Bottom left to right: Judge Rosenberry, Captain Roper, and Oscar Renne... |
| Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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| Description: | The official delegation party with their wives at the ceremony of silver service presentation aboard the USS "Wisconsin". Seated left to right are Judge Ro... |
| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Male and female workers producing torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "A battery of acetylene torches is here show... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the "powder storage area" of the Badger Ordnance Plant. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The four shirtless men in helmets shown with ammunition are a general and his crew of the 14th infantry in Panama. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The Main Hall for St. Norbert College. A cannon is surrounded by shrubs and a lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men assemble a patriotic display consisting of International machinery, a T-9 Tractractor (crawler tractor), a cannon, coils of barbed wire, signs, and... |
| Date: | 11 24 1942 |
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| Description: | Three female factory workers inspect 40-millimeter artillery shells at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A University of Wisconsin veteran holding his baby outside of his Camp Randall trailer camp house. There is a large cannon pointing at him and his trailer. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with an atomic bomb exploding with "Joy, Peace, Health, Happiness and Good Will" flying out of it. Below is the verse: "The atom bomb brings g... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of a flyer promoting International Harvester's war work. Includes the text: "Defenders...All! International Crawlers serve the U.S.A. while Farmalls ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | At the top of the image, a hand pours fat from a skillet into a explosion of thirteen bombs flying towards the viewer. Text at top reads, "Save waste fats ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Motorcycle police at the Badger Ordnance plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, between 1942 and 1945. These men patrolled the fence line of the plant. One of the gu... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of Naval officers loading a cannon above an ill... |
| Date: | 09 29 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle seated on a Japanese cannon in Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Battle of Buna-Gona took place between November 16th, 1942... |
| Date: | 11 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Three war correspondents, (left to right), Bob Eunson of Associated Press, Ralph Boyce of YANK Army Weekly magazine and Robert Doyle of the Milwa... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Michigan soldiers loading bombs onto a trailer at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names, left to right,... |
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