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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall. |
| Date: | 04 09 1934 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Fort Howard Hospital. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged. |
| Date: | 03 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Truax Field Officers' Wives Club president, Irene Crouch, 213 North Street, and her sons, Keith, 6, and Kenneth, 10, preparing to dye eggs for the Easter e... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The USS Nevada in berth at Pearl Harbor with the USS Shaw burning in the background after its forward deck was hit with a Japanese bomb. |
| Date: | 12 21 1944 |
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| Description: | General Vincent J. Meloy, Truax Field commanding officer, draws war bond No. 96,358,797, which means a war bond for Mrs. Lily Clements, a cook at Hamilton ... |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | A topographical view of the site of Fort Crawford. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon... |
| Date: | 10 15 1965 |
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| Description: | Opponents of the War in Vietnam protesting at Truax Air Force Base. This event, which was probably sponsored by local members of the National Coordinating... |
| Date: | 04 13 1949 |
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| Description: | General J. Lawton Collins, Vice-Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, center, is met at Truax Field by Charles Isenberger, at right. The general was the speake... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man uses a truck marked "USMC 66750" to haul a wrecked vehicle through a parking lot at what might be Camp Pendleton. There are numerous vehicles and bui... |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play on an ice slide created by two residents of the barracks apartments at Truax Field. A swing set is in the background. |
| 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: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a model M-51 dump truck depositing raw lime rock from a quarry into the back of a truck marked "U.S. Air Force." Another vehicle is in ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an engineer construction battalion with an M-51 dump truck. The battalion used the truck to transport topsoil along a dirt road at Fort... |
| 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... |
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