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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Cele...
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USO Staff Serve Soldiers

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Description: A smiling USO staff worker serves pancakes to hungry soldiers.
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Bowling at the USO

Date: 1940
Description: A USO volunteer challenges an enthusiastic soldier to a friendly bowling match.
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First Aid Instruction, U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: One member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps class demonstrates the method of treating a leg injury while fellow classmen look on and make notes. The ...
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Quebec Conference

Date: 09 1944
Description: British and American combined Chiefs of Staff led by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The conference was held in Quebe...
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Joseph McCarthy as "Tail Gunner Joe"

Date: 1943
Description: Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, later a Wisconsin senator, posing as a tail gunner during World War II in Douglas SBD Bomber. McCarthy was an intelligen...
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Welles as Dreedle

Date: 1970
Description: Orson Welles as General Dreedle in "Catch 22," the film version of Joseph Heller's classic anti-war story about Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desper...
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Flight Nurse and Wounded

Date: 03 1945
Description: At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ...
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Kiss for a Soldier

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: An American soldier receives a kiss in gratitude for the liberation of Paris during World War II.
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Liberators and the Liberated

Date: 02 1945
Description: GIs from the U.S. 76th Infantry Division make friends with two Yugoslav soldiers and a Russian woman who were freed from a German prison camp during World ...
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Naval Training School, Division #63, Trainees

Date: 05 19 1945
Description: Group portrait of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio), Division #63, with trainees, and a baby boy in sailor suit sitting in front at center, at the Univers...
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U.S. Navy Ships Company

Date: 03 17 1945
Description: Elevated group portrait of United States Navy, Ships Company.
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Naval Training School, Ship's Store

Date: 02 07 1945
Description: Female clerk selling items to Naval trainees at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) ship's store. The store was located in a University of Wisconsin dor...
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Sparky's Funeral

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the grave site of Sparky, with one man playing taps. ...
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Rex Bar Interior

Date: 08 26 1944
Description: Interior of Rex Bar, 546 West Washington Avenue with three bartenders and patrons, including two men in uniform sitting at the bar.
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"Moonlight Formal" at Tripp Commons

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: Couples enjoy the "Moonlight Formal" in Tripp Commons, University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. They are in formal dress with some of the men in military un...
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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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United States Army Safety Program

Date: 01 03 1944
Description: United States Army safety award banner presented to the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. Employees are grouped around it.
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Navy Band and Tap Dancer

Date: 01 17 1944
Description: Twelve members of Navy band playing instruments on stage, with a tap dancer posing close to the floor in front of the piano.
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Sailor in Comedian Act

Date: 01 17 1944
Description: Navy sailor standing at a microphone performing a comedy act.

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