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Dobby's Cosmo Club

Date: 07 16 1943
Description: Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, Wisconsin, interior view of the bar showing liquor bottles and three World War II servicemen...
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Captain Bong and Governor Goodland

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: War hero Capt. Richard I. Bong, of Poplar, Wisconsin, credited with knocking out 21 Japanese planes in the South Pacific, shaking hands with Governor Walte...
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Flight Training at Truax Field

Date: 1944
Description: Instructor on the wing of a biplane talking with an airman trainee in the cockpit of a plane during flight training at Truax Field during World War II.
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Robert V. Merklein with Map of Japan

Date: 07 02 1945
Description: First Lieut. Robert V. Merklein is showing his father, O.F. Merklein, the location of Yokohama, where he downed his first Japanese plane.
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Funeral Wreath for Lieut. William T. Gleason

Date: 07 27 1945
Description: Funeral wreath with photograph in center of Lieut. William T. Gleason, at Lieut. Gleason's funeral service held on July 27, 1945, at St. Bernard's Church. ...
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Roundy Coughlin with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson

Date: 11 15 1945
Description: Roundy Coughlin shaking hands with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson as they renew their acquaintance from attending a baseball game in Chicago when Royal Thompso...
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Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: Lieutenant General Eaker at the Madison airport in front of a B-17 bomber. He is shown with State Representative K. Henry (R-Jefferson) and welcoming commi...
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Theodore Haspell Receiving Four Gold Stars

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: Lieut. Theordore Haspell is shown receiving four gold stars from Capt. J.E. Hurff, University of Wisconsin professor of naval science and tactics. The star...
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Fletcher Family International Reunion

Date: 06 17 1952
Description: Mrs. Mary Ellen Fletcher used an inheritance to fly her mother and father in-laws from Birmingham, England to Madison to witness their sons graduation from...

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