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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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Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 11 1964
Description: Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,...
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Wisconsin National Guard

Date: 1887
Description: Members of the Wisconsin National Guard lined up at Camp Douglas.
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Airplane vs. Battleship

Date: 1913
Description: This photograph from the album of aviation pioneer Jesse Brabazon is described by him as the "first simulated bombing in history, using an aeroplane versus...
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Helicopters in Korea

Date: 01 1953
Description: Infantry troops board helicopters for Korea via the 6th Transportation Helicopter Company, the first Army cargo helicopter unit in the combat zone. The 6th...
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Executed Man

Date: 1957
Description: Executed man laying on ground as the final bullet is delivered. The execution was somehow bungled by the firing squad and this coup d'grace was required to...
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Moseley's Bookstore Display Window

Date: 08 17 1930
Description: Moseley's Bookstore display window advertising the book and the movie "All Quiet On The Western Front." The movie was being shown at the RKO Capitol Theatr...
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Clearing Trenches

Date: 06 1917
Description: British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders.
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Black Hawk War Monument

Date: 1950
Description: Monument commemorating the place where General Atkinson built a stockade when he and his troops fought Black Hawk. Caption reads: "Near this spot General A...
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U.S. Government War Exposition

Date: 09 1918
Description: Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large sign...
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U.S. Government War Exposition

Date: 09 1918
Description: Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow...
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U.S. Government War Exposition

Date: 09 1918
Description: Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow...
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Battle of Jarama

Date: 03 1937
Description: Men in a trench holding rifles.
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Soldiers at Attention

Date: 1943
Description: A group of soldiers stand at attention while lines of men walk past. Men are working on a roof and scaffold around a steeple on a building in the backgroun...
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Men in Scrap Yard

Date: 1943
Description: Elevated view of two men wearing business suits standing near an automobile and a truck in a scrap yard as part of a Harvester World story on World ...
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Soldier Shoveling Mud Off Crawler Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The...
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Marines Pulling Trailer from Mud

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to pull an ammunition trailer from the mud. The original caption reads: "JAPANESE A...
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Naval Reservists

Date: 09 08 1950
Description: Naval reservists line up for roll call while awaiting their train to Chicago on their way to Korea.
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World War II Foxhole at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three dogs near a sandbagged foxhole during the battle of Iwo Jima. A marine is near another dog behind the foxhole. Wooden boxes in the foreground have wr...
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Marines at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three marines dressed in uniform, carrying packs and holding guns, pull an ammunition cart through the water towards the beach at Iwo Jima. Military boats ...

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