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| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| 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,... |
| Date: | 11 1951 |
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| Description: | A wounded Korean War soldier being carried on an airplane for evacuation to a military hospital in Japan. This snapshot was taken by journalist and news co... |
| Date: | 05 22 1944 |
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| Description: | A Japanese bomber going down in flames after having been surprised by a Coronado flying boat of Fleet Air Wing Two. This photograph, which was shot from t... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Medical facilities, Iwo Jima plus nine. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle in the aftermath of the landing at Iwo J... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Coast guardsmen shuttle landing craft back and forth from the anchorage to the beach of Eniwetok Atoll, bringing in fighters and s... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Corporal William (Bill) Fenton lays badly wounded, waiting for medical treatment. There is a note on his shirt that reads "urgent." Fenton survived the inj... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Sgt. Vincent Brencick, USMC, IV Division, commander and sole survivor of the crew of the General Sherman tank Capetown, set afire by a mine. Sgt. Br... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught... |
| Date: | 11 04 1966 |
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| Description: | Marine Lt. General Lewis W. Walt, commanding the III Marine Amphibious Force, and Jim Lucas, representing members of the press corps in Vietnam, pause in r... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Two doctors attend to a wounded man on a stretcher in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Burial plot at Forest Hill Cemetery, where 140 Confederate prisoners of war were interred after perishing at Camp Randall military prison during the spring... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Cartoon showing a man looking at the following text: "Look at the facts, in 11 days war casualties 15,883, civilian casualties 24,812." |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill Cemetery, with graves of Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1862. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A monument to dead Confederate soldiers and Mrs. Alice W. Waterman at the entrance to "Confederate Rest" in the Forest Hill Cemetery. This monument was er... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Confederate graves in the Forest Hill Cemetery. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill cemetery, showing the graves of Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Randall as prisoners of war in 1862. The men w... |
| Date: | 04 23 1972 |
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| Description: | Plot in the Forest Hill Cemetery at 1 Speedway Road in which 105 Confederate soldiers are buried. They died while confined in Madison's Camp Randall during... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors clear the stern of the battleship USS West Virginia in berth F-6 at Pearl Harbor, most likely after it was hit by at least a few of the 7 to... |
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