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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Customer standing at the service counter of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters for the U.S. Truck Conservation Corps and WWII scrap... |
| Date: | 11 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ... |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman shopping in the meat department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She is there to promote the wartime Oscar Mayer Health... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers move crates containing International M-5-6 trucks onto rail cars, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption r... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pack an International M-5-6 truck into a crate, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | An International KR-11 truck used for refueling parks next to a line of airplanes on a runway. There is a man standing on one of the planes holding a hose ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Men and women ride on an International float in the United Nations Parade. The text on the float reads: "99.2% Harvester Employees Buy War Bonds." |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Four men, including Fowler McCormick (third from left), stand in front of the "Liberty Fleet" of International trucks decorated with United States flags. F... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the east side of a temporary office building under construction at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. Several cars are par... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Workers from the Tunnicliff Construction Company build a temporary office building at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. On the right a par... |
| Date: | 08 25 1944 |
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| Description: | A roadside stop in Normandy, France. Two men are posing next to the parked jeep, which has "ADA" stenciled below the windshield. The man in front partially... |
| Date: | 08 25 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with General George C. Marshall at an airfield in Paris, France. The man behind Marshall's elbow is Senior Advisor to P... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with General George C. Marshall at an airfield in Paris, France. On the left are more officers. Several photographers a... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | General Dwight D. Eisenhower (SHAEF commander) poses with (left to right) General George C. Marshall (Army Chief of Staff), Justice James F. Byrnes (Senior... |
| Date: | 10 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle stands with one foot resting on a railroad track on the border between Germany and Belgium. A sign on the right reads "Entering Germany." Behi... |
| Date: | 06 1945 |
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| Description: | Micronesian men, who put thatched roofs on buildings in the western Caroline Islands for United States forces, sit chatting with Robert J. Doyle, The Journ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
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