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Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
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Officers Consult Map

Date: 1942
Description: Officers and non-commissioned officers squatting to consult a map on the ground near Fort Davis, Panama. The men are wearing fatigues and have sub-machine ...
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Military Men Crossing Wooden Bridge

Date: 07 1942
Description: A group of men from the 14th Infantry running while crossing a newly constructed wooden bridge over mud in a field in Panama. The men are in uniform and ar...
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Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette

Date: 12 18 1943
Description: Robert Doyle's caption that accompanied this image reads, "Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette, three times Governor of Wisconsin, poses in combat uni...
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Catholic Mass at Saidor

Date: 01 23 1944
Description: Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Several soldiers can be are in th...
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Catholic Mass at Saidor

Date: 01 23 1944
Description: Catholic Mass at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Chaplain is using the hood of a jeep as an altar. Many soldiers surround the jeep a...
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Artillerymen Leave Camp on Patrol

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Artillerymen prepare to leave their camp in Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea) on a patrol that would last several days. They were to search...
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Artillery Group Leaving on Patrol

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Artillery group leaving on patrol from camp in Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names: (Front to rear) Private First Class Stanley Prachn...
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Posing By the Swimming Hole

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Three officers of General Walter Krueger's staff stand on a log in front of a swimming hole located on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p...
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Prisoners of War in a Truck Bed

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp are being loaded onto a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.

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