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| Date: | 02 1966 |
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| Description: | Arriving at a forward area, a U.S. Air Force CH-30 helicopter carrying a 105mm howitzer is directed in for a landing. The artillery piece, which was in a r... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | View of a cannon and two buildings at Fort Winnebago. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | No. 15. Volcano Trading Post and Museum. Building originally erected in 1851. "Old Abe," the famous Civil War cannon, was smuggled into Volcano in a coffin... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Members of the anti-Castro group Commandos L talking in their arms factory/barrack. There are spray-painted homemade explosive devices on the table and a p... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L manufacturing explosives in a kitchen. The man is pouring a liquid from a small pot into a bundle of metal tube... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L manufacturing explosive devices. The man is placing metal scrap such as rusty bolts and wash... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Front view of a member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L manufacturing explosive devices. The man is placing metal scrap such as rusty bolts and washers... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Member of the anti-Castro group, Commandos L, putting covers over newly manufactured explosive devices. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Two members of the anti-Castro group Commandos L working together to tape a homemade explosive device closed. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L packing explosives into a large can. A box containing the loose explosive pucks is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L cooks ingredients for homemade explosive devices on a stove. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L setting up to test an incendiary device in the Everglades. A man stands above a brown package in a gravel clear... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Two members of the anti-Castro group Commandos L test a homemade incendiary device in a gravelly clearing in the Everglades. One man holds a brown box and ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a homemade incendiary device being tested by two men of the anti-Castro group Commandos L in the Everglades. The brown box has wires connected ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Fire set by an incendiary device made by the anti-Castro group Commandos L. In the extreme foreground the blurred image of a member of the group frames a s... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Small fire in the Everglades from a homemade incendiary device made by the anti-Castro group Commandos L. A member of the group is throwing rocks on the fi... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Two members of the anti-Castro group Commandos L making explosive devices at the group's barracks/armory. One member is hammering cans closed on a table wh... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Close-up of cans used for homemade explosives by the anti-Castro group Commandos L. The cans are sitting on a table with a lamp, a bowl and books of matche... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L spray painting a homemade explosive device with a camouflage pattern under a covered porch. Parked cars and tre... |
| Date: | 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Colonel Bounchon's Lao infantry troops laying explosives forward of lines in the vicinity of Luang Prabang. Two soldiers crouch near some bushes with a met... |
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