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TAG Operations, WWII

Date: 03 1945
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 ...
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Loading Wounded Soldier onto Ship

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship.
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Deck of USS Samaritan

Date: 1945
Description: View from the deck of the hospital ship, the USS Samaritan, at sea. There are other ships and a shoreline in the background.
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Wounded Men Disembarking from Hospital Ship

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Description: Wounded soldiers are led from the USS Samaritan, a hospital ship.
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Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 1945
Description: A military truck with men in uniform is on a road near three Japanese women and a small child who are sitting on the grass on the roadside. Two of the wom...
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Sailors Moving Boxes of Human Blood

Date: 04 04 1945
Description: Two men working together to move a box marked "Human Blood" at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. They are aboard a tank landing ship pontoon float. One man is w...
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Group of Soldiers with Dog

Date: 04 05 1954
Description: Soldiers in Ishikowa, Okinawa resting on top of a truck with a dog. This photograph was taken hours after Ishikowa (population 400) fell. The marines, dres...
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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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Soldiers with Stuck Jeep

Date: 1942
Description: Soldiers from the 14th Infantry work to move a stuck Jeep from deep mud. One man in uniform with a cigarette in his mouth is leaning down over the wheel ho...
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Hospital Ship

Date: 04 1945
Description: Elevated view of a newly commissioned hospital ship, the USS Bountiful, in the Ulithi Harbor. The ship was previously called the USS Henderson
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Sunrise Aboard the USS Relief

Date: 04 1945
Description: The sunrise aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. The mast and bow of the ship are pointed eastward, into the fog and towards the rising sun.
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Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 05 1945
Description: Soldier offering food to Japanese women and children gathered on a roadside in Okinawa. One woman wears a baby on her back. Other soldiers watch from a jee...
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4th Marines in Ishikawa

Date: 04 05 1945
Description: Several members of the 4th Marines, some standing in the road and others seated on vehicles at Ishikawa shortly after the city fell.
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Unloading of USS Samaritan

Date: 03 1945
Description: Elevated view looking down towards a group of men taking a wounded soldier down a ramp from the USS Samaritan to a waiting ambulance. Several milita...
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Transportation of Wounded Soldier

Date: 1945
Description: Two men carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher toward the back of a waiting vehicle to transport him to another location. A grass-roofed building is in the...

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