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| Description: | A smiling USO staff worker serves pancakes to hungry soldiers. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Jesse C. Brabazon, a pioneer aviator from Delavan, Wisconsin, in his uniform as a member of the Milwaukee Wing of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. |
| 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: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Pilot Robert K. Knowles (second from left) of New Richmond, Wisconsin, and the crew of his B-24 bomber with an interrogating officer at Shipdham, England o... |
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| Description: | Captain Robert L. McCahill, Marine parachute officer and Marquette University football star, in his parachute gear. McCahill was killed in action during W... |
| Date: | 06 1943 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of Walter J. Kohler, Jr., then a Navy lieutenant, taken somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II. |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors clear the stern of the battleship USS West Virginia in berth F-6 at Pearl Harbor, most likely after it was hit by at least a few of the 7 to... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The remains of the USS Cassin and the USS Downes floating in front of the USS Pennsylvania in dock at Pearl Harbor. On the left is th... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors in a motor launch attempt a rescue of survivors from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia during or shortly after the... |
| Date: | 11 13 1942 |
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| Description: | Headquarters of the 32nd American Division, on the beach at Pongani, northeast New Guinea. |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Circuit Judge Joseph R. McCarthy wearing his Marine uniform a few days before he left for active duty. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Intelligence officer Joseph R. McCarthy (wearing the cap) with a group of Marines somewhere in the Pacific. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Captain Joseph R. McCarthy (center), with two unidentified Marines, somewhere in the Pacific. |
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| Description: | USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II. |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of Joe McCarthy wearing a pith helmet during World War II. |
| Date: | 08 31 1943 |
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| Description: | Unidentified executive of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division sitting in a folding transport chair, produced as part of the company's war work... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | CG-4A glider floor manufactured by Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, as part of a World War II military contract. Executive Jim Plzak is examinin... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Consolidated Paper executive Jim Plzak (in the suit), watches as workers pull laminate from the Number #1 press at the Consolidated Paper Company. The lam... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Consolidated Paper Company factory showing the large treater used in the manufacture of glider parts during World War II. Ralph Turne... |
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