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Sailors Load Cases of Coca-Cola onto Battleship

Date: 1962
Description: Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background.
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Aircraft Carrier Drill

Date: 05 22 1944
Description: Physical exercise aboard an aircraft carrier during World War II. This photograph was a part of a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. La Follette, former gove...
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Go Signal

Date: 04 16 1944
Description: The launching office above a Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier gives the "go" signal to the pilot. This photograph is from a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. L...
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Aircraft Carrier Landing

Date: 1950
Description: A crewman on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier signals to the pilot of an incoming U.S. Marine Corps CH-34 Choctaw helicopter. The landing was photographed by M...
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Invasion Armada Swarms upon Eniwetok

Date: 1944
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...
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U.S. Marines Unload Equipment on Guam Beach

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines unloading equipment and vehicles from supply ships at Guam beach. International M-5-H-65 trucks are in the background.
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U.S. Marines and TD-9 Diesel Crawler Tractors

Date: 1944
Description: Marine driving an International TD-9 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) off of a landing craft at Cape Gloucester. The original caption reads: "When th...
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Wounded Marine in Iwo Jima

Date: 02 1945
Description: A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged.
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Captured German Submarine

Date: 1919
Description: Captured German submarine, possibly the U-C97, with men on deck. United States flags are flying and several men are gathered on top of the submarine. Anoth...
Poster

War Bonds in Action - Keep Backing the Attack

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 31. The poster features naval warfare, with many ships in the background and a sailor and officer in the foreground. One sailor is peer...
Poster

Buy Extra Bonds for Liberation

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme...
Poster

War Bonds in Action

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 26, "Invasion." The poster features ships landing on the coast and soldiers racing up the beach as explosions rain down around them.
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Japanese Prisoners at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three Japanese prisoners from the battle of Iwo Jima stand amongst American soldiers on a boat.
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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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Marine Casualties at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ...
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Iwo Jima on D-Day

Date: 02 19 1945
Description: Marines on the beach and military boats, including an LSM 242, in the water at Iwo Jima.
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Transporting Wounded Soldiers

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of wounded soldiers being transported to the USS "Samaritan".
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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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USS Franklin Crew at Show

Date: 03 1945
Description: Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin...
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USS Franklin Crew Applauding

Date: 03 1945
Description: Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin...

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