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Filter: Subject of World War, 1939-1945
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Spencer Tracy as Jimmy Doolittle in a B-25 during a scene from "Thirty-Seconds Over Tokyo" (MGM 1944). |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | General Douglas MacArthur congratulates Richard I. Bong, World War II Ace of Aces from Poplar, Wisconsin, after awarding him the Congressional Medal of Hon... |
| Date: | 05 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Navy SPD-1 bomber over Truk. Moen Island is in the foreground, Fefan is at the right, and Etan is directly below the plane. |
| Date: | 05 22 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 16 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 22 1944 |
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| Description: | A Japanese bomber going down in flames after having been surprised by a Coronado flying boat of Fleet Air Wing Two. This photograph, which was shot from t... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Bill Niskala submitting an entry for a war production slogan contest conducted by International Harvester's Production Drive Committee. The ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Lawson Aircraft during the period when the company was based in Green Bay and developing a military trainer. Lawson built several planes... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Storefront war products exhibit at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. A sign on the window reads: "Mud pies. Today is serious business! This fou... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Medical facilities, Iwo Jima plus nine. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle in the aftermath of the landing at Iwo J... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Loading crates of blood at Falalop Island. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle that document the care of the wounded... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | A C-47 bomber returns to North Airfield, Guam. This airfield had been operational only since early February. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee p... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the ... |
| Date: | 08 1945 |
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| Description: | The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay held on Tinian Island after they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, B-29... |
| Date: | 08 1945 |
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| Description: | The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Super Fortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This photograph was taken by Al... |
| Date: | 08 25 1944 |
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| Description: | An American soldier receives a kiss in gratitude for the liberation of Paris during World War II. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | GIs from the U.S. 76th Infantry Division make friends with two Yugoslav soldiers and a Russian woman who were freed from a German prison camp during World ... |
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