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Learning about Medicine Bottles

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Members from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School meet in the pharmaceutical laboratory where they checked medicinal products and learned to identify...
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DiSalvo's Spaghetti House Bar

Date: 04 12 1944
Description: Interior view of DiSalvo's Spaghetti House bar, located at 810 Regent Street in the Greenbush neighborhood. Family portraits, including servicemen, are on ...
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Romantic Night at the "Moonlight Formal"

Date: 08 26 1944
Description: A formally dressed young woman and her beau in his U.S. Army uniform sit at a table and drink Coca-Cola at the "Moonlight Formal" in Tripp Commons at the M...
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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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Soldiers Conversing and Drinking Soda at Ft. Sill

Date: 1941
Description: A group of men sit in a store and drink soda at Fort Sill. Draftee Charles J. Richard is among the men. Richard was a former International Harvester employ...
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Sun Bath on Buster Island

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Two men enjoy a nude sun bath on Buster Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. The man on the right, wearing only boots, is...
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Contrasting Tans on Buster Island

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: The caption in the Milwaukee Journal, says it best, "From the far-off Pacific (somewhere on Kwajalein), the picture of Ensign Ray Hanson and Robert ...
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Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 05 1945
Description: Soldier offering food to Japanese women and children gathered on a roadside in Okinawa. One woman wears a baby on her back. Other soldiers watch from a jee...

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