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| Date: | 11 04 1966 |
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| Description: | Marine Lt. General Lewis W. Walt, commanding the III Marine Amphibious Force, and Jim Lucas, representing members of the press corps in Vietnam, pause in r... |
| Date: | 09 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Dedication of a drinking fountain at Central High School as a memorial to Pfc. James Hammond, son of Howard and Regina Hammond, 114 North Bassett Street. H... |
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| Description: | Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist who lost his arm while serving during World War II, purchases Easter Seals from a handicapped girl. Allen was act... |
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| Description: | Obituary notice of William H. Upham reported in a Racine, Wisconsin newspaper. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Martha Pratt, assistant field director at the Red Cross hospital in Saipan, participates in conversational therapy with a soldier wounded in Iwo Jima. Prat... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A woman with a badge marked "Bell Telephone System" is holding a telephone cradle while handing a wounded marine a telephone receiver. The marine is lying ... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Helilift of corpses after a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop mats on the ground in a field. S... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. Children watch as a group of men begin to pick up corpses wrapped in sheets on woven mats. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | In the aftermath of Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi, corpses await helilift. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop woven mats in a ... |
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| Description: | Monument marking the place where Colonel Hans Heg was mortally wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga. |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of women and one child alongside the graves of Colonel Hans Heg, commander of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, and his daughter Annetta.... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Ellen G. Ainsworth, published in the Milwaukee Sentinel. She was an Army nurse killed in action on February 16th, 194... |
| Date: | 06 15 1965 |
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| Description: | U.S. paratrooper Sgt. Glen Meunier of Port Charlotte, Florida, laying on the ground next to a building after being shot through his right thigh by a rebel ... |
| Date: | 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Funeral at Binh Hung, Vietnam for several members of the Vietnamese Sea Swallows battallion who were killed in combat against Viet Cong forces on May 29. U... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | A commemorative roster of the Wisconsin Volunteers of Company C, 27th Regiment. |
| Date: | 02 18 1919 |
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| Description: | A memorial to those who died with honor. Caption reads: "A common sight in the wake of the battle of the Marne." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two men are are standing outdoors and operating a Rotax X-Ray machine on the leg of a man lying on top of a box. Behind them is the side of a building. |
| Date: | 09 01 1918 |
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| Description: | Soldiers adorning the grave of a fallen comrade at the advanced dressing station, the farthest point to which ambulances would travel. A sign on an ambulan... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a monumental woman cradling a wounded man. She is wearing a Red Cross hat, and the Red Cross insignia behind her on the... |
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