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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 09 22 1862 |
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| Description: | The 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers under the command of Colonel William L. Utley, crossing the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall. |
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| Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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| Description: | Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ... |
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| Description: | Etching of the "Attack upon Roanoke Island" by troops landing from naval vessels, after a painting by Chappel. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | U.S. Army advisor Major M.C. Curley and soldiers crossing a river in the delta region of Vietnam in a small boat to visit an outpost. A large building, a m... |
| Date: | 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Sea Swallows, an anti-communist Vietnamese militia, begin an operation by boats on a canal in the vicinity of Van Dinh, Vietnam. Militia members hold guns ... |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | General view of Port Moresby Harbor from road, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A jeep is on the road on the left. Several soldiers are near a sh... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ... |
| Date: | 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers land on the beach in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They use collapsible canvas boats to ferry men and equipment from small coastal ve... |
| Date: | 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers land on the beach in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They use collapsible canvas boats to ferry men and equipment from small coastal ve... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View over water towards the New Guinea coast from a boat. A larger boat is on the right and several smaller craft in the center. A pier is on the shoreline... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking down towards shoreline of troops on board a paddle boat on a canal. The boat flies an American flag. Other people stand on the shoreline and o... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View down slope towards shoreline. On the opposite side of the river is an army base and portions of a small town. In the distance there is a cupola of a R... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Silhouetted view across water of a group of people on a small boat near the bridge on the canal at Tan Hung Tay, Vietnam. A dog is crossing the bridge and ... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | View from water of a newly formed company of Vietnamese Sea Swallows riding in a boat near Binh Hung as they joyously celebrate its graduation from trainin... |
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