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| Date: | 11 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marine Corps engineers excavating sand and rock with a steam shovel and a fleet of International trucks in the Pavuvu Islands. The International Harve... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Male Papuan carriers help members of the 32nd Division construct a road through the jungle of New Guinea. |
| Date: | 05 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Side view of an International KR-11 dump truck with the bed raised. The original caption reads: "KR-11 M.T. Government Model, Contract 11401." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Uniformed men sit on top of International crawler tractors equipped with bulldozer blades in an area of brush with hills in the background. An internationa... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers sitting on the ground under the shade of a tree to eat lunch. Construction equipment, including an International crawler tractor, is in the backgr... |
| Date: | 04 30 1942 |
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| Description: | External view of the proposed Personnel Building at the Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. The sign on the side of the building reads: "Bettendorf Co. Steel Foundry... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | A patrol officer from the 14th Infantry, based in Fort Davis, Panama, follows his compass through the jungle. The patrol officer has a small cigarette in o... |
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| Description: | A soldier hacks a path through a jungle in Panama with a machete while smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry building a "wiki-up", or place to sleep while on patrol, in a jungle in Panama. One man has a cigarette in his mouth. |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry working among lumber in Panama. One man iswearing a hat and squatting on top of a pile of lumber while holding a hammer... |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Three indigenous boys building a roof out of what appears to be palm fronds at Combat Team Headquarters on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous youth weaves roofing for military buildings on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). |
| Date: | 08 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Five indigenous workers balance on timbers while building the framing for a roof on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New G... |
| Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | War correspondents in Port Moresby wait in the back of a jeep the night before a paratroop landing near Lae, a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea (presen... |
| Date: | 10 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Colonel Harry J. Bullis of Portland, Michigan, poses next to the sign for the "Ale and Quail Club" on a military base in Port Moresby, Australia... |
| Date: | 12 08 1943 |
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| Description: | Three Generals of the 32nd Division, (left to right) Brigadier General Robert McBride, Brigadier General Clarence A. Martin and Major General William H. Gi... |
| Date: | 12 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Four Star General Douglas MacArthur greets a soldier during a tour on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Sol... |
| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Sergeant Ed Gigowski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, plays his accordion for some members of the 121st Field Artillery Battalion at Saidor, New Guinea (present da... |
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