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Helicopter Cockpit

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helicopter cockpit showing the pilot's view of the Vietnamese Delta region below. This photograph was taken by Milwaukee freelance photographer Dickey Chap...
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Vietnam Helicopter Mission

Date: 06 1962
Description: A photograph taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle on board a helicopter that was enroute to Vinh Quoi in the Delta Region of South Vietnam. The ...
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Flying Bananas

Date: 06 1962
Description: A U.S. Army Piasecki CH21-C helicopter operating at a newly cut drop zone strip near the Laotian border to resupply Vietnamese troops. Because of the two r...
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Dickey and Tony Chapelle

Date: 1950
Description: Dickey Meyer Chapelle poses with her husband Tony Chapelle next to a vehicle.
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Escape from Hungary to Austria

Date: 11 29 1956
Description: A woman in a headscarf crosses an improvised bridge in the vicinity of the village of Tamsweg, escaping from Hungary to Austria.
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U.S. Special Forces

Date: 1961
Description: View from rear of several shirtless soldiers running up a hill towards an Air America chopper about to land with a new supply of American soldiers in Ban H...
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Helicopter in Binh Mung

Date: 1961
Description: Little boys watch the arrival of a helicopter over Binh Mung village in Vietnam.
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Loading Wounded Soldier onto Ship

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship.
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Group Photograph at Officer's Club

Date: 1942
Description: A young woman takes a photograph of Admiral Van Hook, Secretary Knox, and General Frank Andrews at Coco Solo Submarine Base Officer's Club.
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Olive Brooks, Division Engineer in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive...
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Men in Jeep, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers during the Cuban Revolution. Three men are around a jeep listening to the driver speak. There is a stack of firearms in the...
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Limousine on Havana Street

Date: 1959
Description: Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve...
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Salon Cristal, Havana Cuba

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Description: View down a covered Havana sidewalk at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Small groups of civilians are standing around and walking. A large sign for the Sa...
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Havana Parade, Cuban Revolution

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Description: Parade celebrating Fidel Casto's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban Revolution. 26th of July Movement soldiers are riding on top of a captured Sher...
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Havana Parade, Cuban Revolution

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Description: Parade celebrating Fidel Casto's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban Revolution. 26th of July Movement soldiers are riding on top of a military vehic...
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Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 1945
Description: A military truck with men in uniform is on a road near three Japanese women and a small child who are sitting on the grass on the roadside. Two of the wom...
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Sailors Moving Boxes of Human Blood

Date: 04 04 1945
Description: Two men working together to move a box marked "Human Blood" at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. They are aboard a tank landing ship pontoon float. One man is w...
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Flight Nurses Look for Luggage

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurses, newly arrived in Agana Airport, Guam, searching for their luggage as two other women are looking on. The two flight nurses have just complet...
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Trainees Demolish a Bridge

Date: 12 1942
Description: Trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama, gathered around a wooden bridge they are rigging with dynamite charges. The men are wearing fatigue...
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Nurse Boarding Jeep

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, boarding a Jeep at 148th General Hospital in Saipan. Hyland is wearing a striped jumpsuit and has her hair tied up...

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