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Ray-O-Vac & RMR Promotion

Date: 03 03 1945
Description: Soldier helping a woman use a Handie Talkie at the Ray-O-Vac & RMR promotional exhibit set up at the Capitol Theatre. "This battery is the heart of the Han...
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Soldier with Walkie-Talkie

Date: 03 09 1945
Description: PFC Harold C. Schreckengost, commanding officer's runner, using a walkie-talkie among the rubble of buildings, directs movements of Company E, 2nd Battalio...
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Camp Bowie

Date: 1918
Description: A view of uniformed men gathering around an Army field wireless station at Camp Bowie, built in 1917.
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Naval Students Operate a Radio

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Description: Naval students operate a radio while an officer looks on at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Naval Students Operating Radios

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Description: Several groups of Naval students operate radios while an officer looks on at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Naval Student Operating Telegraph

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Description: One Naval student operates a telegraph while another student observes, listening with earphones, at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). A typewriter is...
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Inside Project ELF

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Captain Charles Biele and an unidentified staffer in the Navy facility at Clam Lake known as Project ELF.
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Inside Project ELF (Alternate View)

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Captain Charles Biele and an unidentified staffer inside the Navy's facility at Clam Lake known as Project ELF.
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Touring Project ELF

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Captain Charles Biele (right) and John A. Lavine (next to Biele), Wisconsin newspaper publisher, before Lavine toured the controversial U.S. Navy facility ...
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Air Support Operations Center, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Soldier at work at a desk in an Air Support Operations Center, Da Nang, Vietnam. There is a large map on the wall, military radios, a clock and a military ...
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Captured Prisoner and Vietnamese Soldiers

Date: 1962
Description: Small group of Vietnamese soldiers stand with a recently captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong on a path in the woods in Vietnam. One soldier is u...
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Robert Colton Johnson

Date: 1918
Description: Seated portrait of Lieutenant Robert C. Johnson, adjutant.
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Soldiers with Jeep View Smoke from Brest

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: View of distant smoke from the battle surrounding Brest, France. In the foreground, soldiers are parked in a large field with an air support radio jeep. Th...
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Navy Reservists Train at the Naval Reserve Training Center

Date: 07 25 1961
Description: Naval reservists train at the Naval Reserve Training Center at Truax Field. A complete combat information center mockup is maintained at the training cente...
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Soldiers Using Radio in Vietnam

Date: 1965
Description: Six soldiers along a roadside in Vietnam. One soldier operates a radio while another writes. Other men sit on the other side of the road, and in the far ba...
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Helicopters Loading

Date: 1965
Description: A soldier with a radio on his back waits in the foreground while a group of men stand waiting while other men board helicopters on a beach in Vietnam.
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Field Telephone in Syria

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Description: Turkish field telephone in the desert.
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Column of Turkish Telegraph Troops Leaving Constantinople

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Description: Turkish soldiers taking telegraphs and transmission equipment to the front.

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