Date: | 10 09 1951 |
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Description: | The Distinguished Service Cross for heroism was given posthumously to Capt. Robert Walker, Lancaster, who was killed as the result of heroic action near Sa... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Delegation of war-widow, war-orphans, and maimed war-heroes at the White House, Washington, D.C., appealing to President Wilson for an "embargo on all war ... |
Date: | 05 23 1966 |
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Description: | On a surprise visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital, President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with John R. Kington, a Marine wounded in Vietnam. In the next bed is... |
Date: | 05 19 1945 |
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Description: | Colonel Robert S. Allen, photographed in Germany only a few days after being wounded and captured by the Germans. It was a German surgeon who amputated his... |
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Description: | Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist who lost his arm while serving during World War II, purchases Easter Seals from a handicapped girl. Allen was act... |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Colonel Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist before World War II, lost his arm while on active duty in Europe. He is seated here with Dr Anton Dvorak, ... |
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Description: | Obituary notice of William H. Upham reported in a Racine, Wisconsin newspaper. |
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Description: | Application to admit a child to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Madison, Wisconsin, who had lost their father in the Civil War. |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Petition to President Abraham Lincoln for the establishment of soldiers homes and hospitals in Wisconsin. The petition is signed by 18 women. |
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: | 1945 |
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Description: | Private first class, John W. Hood, wearing dogtags smiles after a blood transfusion on the USS Samaritan in Iwo Jima. He is bandaged and is holding ... |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Overhead view of wounded soldiers being transported to the USS "Samaritan". |
Date: | 02 1945 |
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Description: | Wounded men are laying in a foxhole in Iwo Jima waiting to be moved to another location. |
Date: | 02 1945 |
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Description: | Lt. Commander Leonard (Leo) Thelen, Commanding Officer of the hospital, taking the pulse of a Marine line officer whose legs have been injured by shrapnel. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | A badly wounded Marine suffers with an abdominal injury in Iwo Jima. A medic is sitting near him checking his identification tag. |
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Description: | Marine Franklin Hofele sits aboard the USS "Samaritan" with injuries. |
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Description: | A wounded Marine lays on a stretcher on the deck of the USS "Samaritan" in Iwo Jima. The man later died. |
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Description: | Marine Roy Elgin Jones lays wounded on the deck of the USS "Samaritan" in Iwo Jima. A medic sits next to him filling out a card on a clipboard. |
Date: | 01 08 1863 |
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Description: | Letter from John L. Mitchell to his mother describing combat and conditions at Camp Bradley near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. |
Date: | 03 15 1862 |
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Description: | Engraved Illustration for the story titled: "The Fight at Fort Donelson". The illustration shows the Second Iowa Volunteers regiment attacking Confederate ... |
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