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| Date: | 04 25 1953 |
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| Description: | A mushroom cloud from possibly Yucca Flats, Nevada where there was a nuclear bomb test. |
| Date: | 04 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Infantry troops of the 8th Army preparing to board a Bell UH-1D helicopter of the 6th Transportation Helicopter Company for transport to the front. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion at Truax Field. Armaments for this fighter included two air-to-air rockets capable of being armed with nuclear... |
| Date: | 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Silhouette of a guard patrolling while wearing a helmet and carrying a bayonet. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A Civil War cannon captured at the Battle of Shiloh, displayed at Camp Randall near the corner of Randall Street and Dayton Street. A fire station is visib... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall Memorial Park cannon with an American flag flying in the background. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A group of men from the National Liberation Front (FLN) show an unexploded aerial bomb to Dickey Chapelle, demonstrating NATO involvement in the war. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers hold a flag decorated with a crescent and a star. |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Mob violence during the integration crisis in Little Rock. Probably taken between September 20th, when Governor Faubus withdrew the National Guard and Sept... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble m... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers set off mortar rounds in Panama. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of M-41 and M-54 cargo vehicles servicing and transporting 155-mm howitzers with 10-gun crews. The trucks belonged to the 73rd Armored Art... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of members of the 73rd Armored Field Artillery using an M-62 wrecker to remove a damaged truck from a field at Fort Hood. The specificatio... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an M-139 truck transporting members of a bridge-building unit and construction materials to the bank of a river in a wooded area. The s... |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | A British soldier or police officer and a civilian on the bridge between the British area of Hong Kong and Communist China. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Marine and bayonet silhouetted in a fiery blast of napalm. Taken during a napalm testing maneuver at Camp Pendleton. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Fidel Castro led 26th of July Movement soldiers during the Cuban Revolution. Low angle view of several soldiers crouching behind a stone barricade with gu... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | 26th of July Movement command headquarters in the Sierra Maestra mountains during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro sits in a hammock and speaks with Vil... |
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