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U.S. Navy WAVES

Date: 02 17 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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WAVES Leaving with Bags

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Description: Five women dressed in WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) uniforms saluting and carrying suitcases, probably at the University of Wiscon...
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Women Saluting

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Description: Women military cadets stand in a line saluting.
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel Castro is seated with his constant companion Celia Sanchez, and Vilma Espin, who sits to Castro's left. Cuba.
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GIs at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Four WAC lieutenants posing on the rail of the life launch. From left to right are Virginia Harmon, Jane Dunning, Ardeth Cauble, and Helen Durr.
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Swimming at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Helen Durr diving from the launch, with Ardith Cauble (Gauble?) observing her.
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First Alice in Dairyland

Date: 06 07 1948
Description: Newly selected Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, receiving an orchid from Virginia Palan, legionnaire and WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency ...
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North Vietnamese Women on Patrol

Date: 1966
Description: Propaganda photograph released by the Vietnam News Agency-Hanoi on March 10, 1966. It was received by the National Coordinating Committee against the War i...
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North Vietnamese Freedom Fighters

Date: 12 1965
Description: Anti-aircraft crew that was said to have downed 14 American planes during four days in December, 1965. This propaganda photograph was released by a Hanoi s...
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Flight Nurses during Aquatic Training

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Description: Six female flight nurses posing outdoors. The women are wearing bathing suits and holding life vests around their necks at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip d...
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Flight Nurses in Training Pool

Date: 1943
Description: Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i...
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Flight Nurses Look for Luggage

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurses, newly arrived in Agana Airport, Guam, searching for their luggage as two other women are looking on. The two flight nurses have just complet...
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Juan Almeida Bosque on a Picnic in Cuba

Date: 1959
Description: Juan Almeida Bosque, operating chief of the Cuban airforce, and a small group having a picnic in the countryside of Cuba. Three soldiers in fatigues are si...
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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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Nurse Boarding Jeep

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, boarding a Jeep at 148th General Hospital in Saipan. Hyland is wearing a striped jumpsuit and has her hair tied up...
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26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in the woods of Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro, Juan Almeida Bosque and Vilma Espin crouch...
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26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in the woods of Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. A number of participants, including Vilma Espin and Juan...
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26th of July Movement Meeting Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. A number of participants, including Vilma Espin, Raúl Castro and Juan...
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26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin and Fidel Castro crouch over a map spread on the ground....
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Female Marine Carpenter

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea...

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