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| Date: | 09 17 1908 |
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| Description: | Soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia, watching Orville Wright demonstrate the Wright Brothers' airplane for the U.S. Army. Milwaukee's Billy Mitchell is said to... |
| 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: | 05 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Men of the 57th Infantry Division wait to begin loading on a C-124C "Globemaster II" for transport to their training site. The C-124, a development on the ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Loading crates of blood at Falalop Island. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle that document the care of the wounded... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the ... |
| Date: | 08 17 1946 |
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| Description: | The original crew of "Dave's Dream," the B-29 airplane which dropped the first atomic bomb on Bikini Island, in front of the plane at Truax Field during a ... |
| Date: | 08 17 1946 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Charles F. Moore with cat "Kwajie" who was the mascot of the B-29 airplane "Dave's Dream" and who made the trip over Bikini when the plane dropped the... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Uniformed soldiers use a ladder to unload objects from a U.S. Army C-47 airplane labeled "Green Goon." An International truck appears in the foreground wi... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 25, "Blue Prints." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is an explosive battle scene in shades of dark blue. On the ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 24, "Happy Family." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is a naval battle commencing on stormy waters in shades of ... |
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| Description: | Paratroopers of the 82nd Airbourne division seated in a C-82 prior to takeoff. From right to left are Major General Ralph M. Immell (commander of the 84th ... |
| Date: | 06 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Sigurd F. Olson, standing, on a C-47 plane en route from Berlin to Frankfort, and then home to Minnesota. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men working on a B-29 bomber, just returned from its first fire raid on Tokyo. The men are on top of the plane, opening a hatch. They are both shirtles... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Men working on a Marine Aircraft Group plane at Ulithi airport. One man is standing near the nose of the plan, looking inside. He is shirtless and wearing ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A postcard of a drawing depicting a frustrated pilot in a plane trying to land behind a dairy cow. A soldier is pulling and a farmer is pushing to try to g... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Paratroopers at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Trucks at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, wait while paratroopers prepare to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfie... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Military aircraft at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. The aircraft in the foreground is named ... |
| Date: | 10 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Tail of a Lodestar aircraft at Townsville Airfield, Queensland, Australia. The Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar was a passenger transport aircraft of the World W... |
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