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| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Automobiles and police officer on West Mifflin Street. Celebration of V-J Day August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japan... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Groups of uniformed Marines await transportation to a rifle range on the beds of International M-3-4 trucks parked in a row along the side of a road. There... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The United States Coast Guard band plays a concert for a War Bond Drive with Rudy Vallee as its conductor. The original caption reads: "U.S.C.G. (Int'l K-6... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Two International trucks follow a dirt path into and out of a small valley at a Marine Corps Motor Transport School Training Command Camp. The school was l... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an... |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | German youth marching during a Nazi rally in Danzig. |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | A smiling Robert Doyle holds the nozzle to the gas pump with one hand and gives the "thumbs up" sign with the other at the Kangaroo Korner Gas Station near... |
| Date: | 12 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Seven Lieutenant nurses from Wisconsin pose with a Lieutenant Colonel from Illinois behind a sign that declares "Off Limits To All Troops." Names (left to ... |
| Date: | 12 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Three Lieutenant nurses from Michigan pose behind a sign that declares "Off Limits To All Troops." Names, left to right, are Lieutenant Avice Cleveringa of... |
| Date: | 12 18 1943 |
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| Description: | War Correspondent Robert Doyle and Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette, wearing combat uniform, chat while standing on a shoreline. Lieutenant Colonel... |
| Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Indigenous villagers pose with Robert Doyle (7th from left) and NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific.... |
| Date: | 01 1943 |
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| Description: | The Royal Papuan Constabulary stands at attention with their weapons in the Port Moresby area, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The constabulary ... |
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| Description: | Two campers kneel on a blanket on the ground, demonstrating bandaging. Several other campers are gathered around the blanket, some on the ground, some stan... |
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