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| 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 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 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... |
| 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: | 11 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Austin Henry of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses with an indigenous man in front of the medical tent at the military camp on Woodlark Island, in the Solom... |
| Date: | 11 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Harry Glass, Jr., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, gets a drink of water at the lister bag. A lister bag (also spelled lyster bag) is a devic... |
| Date: | 12 02 1943 |
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| Description: | An Intelligence Officer smiles as he holds an indigenous plant with fruit on it used for food. A building is behind him with two signs, "Operations" and "O... |
| Date: | 12 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle poses in his undershorts between Private Gerald Minkin of Ironwood, Michigan (left) and Private First Class Samuel "Slim" Lanham of Louisville... |
| Date: | 12 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Three Wisconsin women and a man pose in front of a building. In the foreground is a rack holding rubber gloves. Names, left to right, are Lieutenant Kathle... |
| Date: | 11 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Jeanette Loree of East Lansing, Michigan (left) and Lieutenant Dorothy Watts of Jackson, Michigan (right), pose with a coconut and its husk. A b... |
| 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: | 09 11 1944 |
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| Description: | View from indoors of a smiling eleven-year-old girl posing in an open window that opens onto the street in Landerneau, France. Robert Doyle, war correspond... |
| Date: | 09 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Rough and tough Wisconsin rangers, who helped storm Normandy beach... |
| Date: | 02 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Four indigenous women pose in front of a store on Tutuila in American Samoa. They are all wearing dresses. A woman and children can be seen in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 04 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Twin soldiers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pose on a pile of rubble with a dog at the Army base on Guam, in the South Pacific. On the left is Corporal Robert... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle as he reads and writes indoors. He is wearing a bracelet (perhaps an ID) on his right wrist, and is holding a cigarette. Another man sitting b... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | War correspondents pose for a group portrait in the Aussie Press Hut in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names, (front, left to rig... |
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