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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling an engine cowling for the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo and transport airplane during World War II at International Harvest... |
| Date: | 10 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a stub lathe to turn, face, groove and "chamfer" chain-tightener sprockets at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The sprocket... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Reverend Elgar F. Mindorff, not long after being released from a Japanese military prison in China. |
| Date: | 06 05 1944 |
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| Description: | George Kraft, 310 West Washington Avenue, praying at the St. Raphael's Catholic Church for the safe return of his son, Private Robert C. Kraft with the D-D... |
| Date: | 06 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Lieutenant W. James Atkins, son of Mrs. Margaret M. Atkins, served with the British Eighth army of the American Field Service in the Middle Eas... |
| Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William E. O'Brien, Wisconsin Director for the War Manpower Commssion. Mr. O'Brien, a civil engineer, was formerly Chairman of the Wisconsin Hi... |
| Date: | 11 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua... |
| Date: | 06 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Howard A. Endres reading his furlough papers at the end of World War II, at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. |
| Date: | 05 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Howard A. Endres standing in line for his final meal at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, before being discharged at the end of World War II. |
| Date: | 07 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Donald W. (Ruth Wilson) Rindt and sons, Jon (3) and Brian (1). She's was staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.N. Wilson, prior to join... |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin shaking hands with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson as they renew their acquaintance from attending a baseball game in Chicago when Royal Thompso... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Stella Ringstrand mills a 20mm gun part at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross Worker, serving coffee and talking with B-29 crew at Kobler Field in Saipan. Sullivan is reaching for a large coffee pot and is... |
| Date: | 06 1991 |
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| Description: | "When this marker was dedicated, Highway 41 as designated the World War II Veteran's Memorial Highway." |
| Date: | 06 1991 |
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| Description: | "Otto Manthey, Mayville, former member of the famed 32nd Red Arrow Division, was an interested observer when the marker was dedicated." |
| Date: | 03 1998 |
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| Description: | "At the Legion's 79th Birthday Party, World War II veterans were honored. Commander Greg Krueger presents awards to Ralph Widmer, Navy; Bud Ruecker, Army A... |
| Date: | 07 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Red Cross Field Director, G. Robert Mowerson of Ann Arbor, Michigan, works at his typewriter at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. A field telephone is ... |
| Date: | 06 19 1943 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette and Captain William Kurkeet, of Madison, Wisconsin, chatting at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. La Follette ... |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Major General William Hanson Gill awards the Distinguished Service Cross to Staff Sergeant Milan Miljatovich of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at Camp Cable, near B... |
| Date: | 08 31 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of war correspondents at Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Robert Doyle is in the center. |
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