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| Date: | 12 1942 |
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| Description: | A Panamanian boy is standing between two indigenous Panamanian men. They are all wearing face paint and flowers in their hair. One of the men and the boy a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 07 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Colonel B. Tormey, Chief Censor — Southwest Pacific Area, sits in his well-lighted office at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Robert Doyle's articles ... |
| 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: | Private Clarence Charneski, Surgical Technician-Medical Detachment, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, takes an improvised outdoor shower under a bucket at a militar... |
| 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 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Jim Hiner of Lincoln Park, Michigan, hangs pants on a clothesline while on laundry duty at the Rough Raider Squadron Laundry, near Port Moresby, N... |
| Date: | 12 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Navigator Lieutenant Fred Radtke of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses while perched on the side of a jeep. The base is near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day... |
| 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 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle (shirtles), works at the typewriter in his quarters in the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) #5, room 110, at CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacif... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | View down line of indigenous men, from a village near the airstrip, helping soldiers carry equipment to a camp area along a trail. Two soldiers stand off t... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | An outdoor concert for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his staff at CinCPac/CinCPOA Advanced Headquarters on Guam. Admiral Nimitz is 3rd from the right... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Rosina Victoria Junghans seated at a desk with cards and letters to and from servicemen and women serving in World War II. She holds r... |
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