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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Four young women blowing on noise makers, with other people watching, celebrating V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surre...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Crowds at the corner of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of J...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Elevated view of a mass of cars turning from North Pinckney Street onto East Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square celebrating V-J Day, August 15, the day o...
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Newsboy Selling V-E Day Newspaper to Soldier

Date: 05 07 1945
Description: Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci...
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German Prisoners of War Marching to Truck

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Elevated view of a work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.

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