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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Silver Presentation Delegation and Wives

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: The official delegation party with their wives at the ceremony of silver service presentation aboard the USS "Wisconsin". Seated left to right are Judge Ro...
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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
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Remount Service Pack Train

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Camp Lewis, showing a pack train fitted out for a march.
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Water Street Bridge Reconstruction

Date: 06 02 1943
Description: Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background.
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Locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool"

Date: 1864
Description: The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War.
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Sigurd Olson Going Home

Date: 06 06 1946
Description: Sigurd F. Olson, standing, on a C-47 plane en route from Berlin to Frankfort, and then home to Minnesota.
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A view of a motor truck train at Camp Travis, named in 1917. The driver sits in the first truck while another man stands beside him.
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Doyle Filling Jeep with Gasoline

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: A smiling Robert Doyle holds the nozzle to the gas pump with one hand and gives the "thumbs up" sign with the other at the Kangaroo Korner Gas Station near...
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Robert Doyle and Captain Money

Date: 11 05 1943
Description: Robert Doyle and Australian Captain William (Bill) A. Money, chat on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). In t...
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War Correspondent in B-24 Warplane

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Robert Doyle in a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane during the Alexishafen strike. Alexishafen was a Japanese occupied airbase located on the northeast ...
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Roadside Stop in France

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: A roadside stop in Normandy, France. Three men are standing with a jeep. From left is Robert Doyle, war correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal. The...
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Three Men and a Jeep

Date: 1944
Description: Group portrait of Robert Doyle, wearing a hat and pants, sitting at the wheel of a jeep along with a man in the passenger seat. Another man is leaning agai...
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Dick Hanley

Date: 1944
Description: Casual portrait of photographer Sergeant Dick Hanley, smiling broadly and perched on the spare tire of a jeep, of YANK Army Weekly magazine. In his ...
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Robert Doyle Standing on Tank

Date: 1944
Description: Robert Doyle standing on a tank. A soldier is peering out of a hatch behind him on the right. A power pole and trees are in the background.
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Three Men from Milwaukee Journal

Date: 03 1945
Description: From the caption that accompanied the image: "Fellow workers in civilian life, these Milwaukeeans met recently on Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall islands. ...
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Three Men from Milwaukee Journal

Date: 03 1945
Description: From the caption that accompanied the image: "Fellow workers in civilian life, these Milwaukeeans met recently on Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall islands. ...
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Tour of Apostles with JFK, Gaylord Nelson and John Reynolds

Date: 1963
Description: Gaylord Nelson, John F. Kennedy, and John Reynolds on the 1963 tour of the Apostle Islands. There is a U.S. Army helicopter in the background.

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