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| Description: | Two instructors, Beatrice and Leon Lamoreux, teaching Naval students telegraphy at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Group of Army recruits in formation. Original caption reads: "The 609th Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalion, recruited from IH operations... pictu... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The front at Nago, Okinawa. A uniformed soldier stands on a rocky outcropping near bushes. Misty or smoky hillsides are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 11 1996 |
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| Description: | "Les Beck displayed World War II memorabilia on Veteran's Day, Nov. 11. Les served 39 months overseas with the famed 32nd Red Arrow Division." |
| Date: | 07 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Private Bill Gantenbein of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, inspects the marker for Vicksburg, their beloved mongrel mascot. Pvt. Gantenbein passed his helmet on payda... |
| Date: | 07 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Colonel B. Tormey, Chief Censor — Southwest Pacific Area, sits in his well-lighted office at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Robert Doyle's articles ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Sergeant William (Hub) Gilligan of Camp Douglas, Wisconsin and Sergeant Elmer Warnke of Pardeeville, Wisconsin, conversing at the Quarter Master warehouse ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Earl Foster, a mechanic in a quartermaster unit, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, at the wheel of a jeep sedan at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Driv... |
| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Civilian war correspondent Robert Doyle interviewing Major General William Hanson Gill (left), and Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger (right), at Ca... |
| Date: | 06 19 1943 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette and Captain William Kurkeet, of Madison, Wisconsin, chatting at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. La Follette ... |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Major General William Hanson Gill awards the Distinguished Service Cross to Staff Sergeant Milan Miljatovich of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at Camp Cable, near B... |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star Medal recipients at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. |
| Date: | 07 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin heroes in the Papuan campaign, a group of five award recipients at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Left to right are Staff Sergeant Milan M... |
| Date: | 07 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Master Sergeant William (Hub) Gilligan of Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, poses for a photo at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Gilligan is a chief clerk of ... |
| Date: | 07 31 1943 |
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| Description: | G. Robert Mowerson (left), Red Cross Director and Robert Doyle (third from left), War Correspondent, posing with Captain O.S. Allen of Columbus, Georgia, a... |
| Date: | 08 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers from the U.S. 6th Army Division, from Detroit, (left to right), Private Ned Zaffaramo, Private First Class Richard Rheaume and Private Kamil... |
| Date: | 08 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers pose in a jeep. The driver is Sergeant Howard Cody of Racine, Wisconsin, and next to him is Private Eugene Pregont of Wausau, Wisconsin. Palm ... |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | A view of Milne Bay, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), from the sea. A ship can be seen on the right, at the shoreline. |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st... |
| Date: | 08 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Howard Pagel of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, poses for a photo on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Notes by Ro... |
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