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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Soldiers in battle gear, holding rifles, marching in a long line across a wooden bridge. Across the water is a building on the shoreline with the jungle be... |
| Date: | 01 1943 |
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| Description: | The Royal Papuan Constabulary stands at attention with their weapons in the Port Moresby area, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The constabulary ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ... |
| Date: | 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers land on the beach in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They use collapsible canvas boats to ferry men and equipment from small coastal ve... |
| Date: | 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers land on the beach in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They use collapsible canvas boats to ferry men and equipment from small coastal ve... |
| Date: | 02 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle interviews Private Floyd Flayter, (shirtless) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin at a training ground somewhere in Australia. A firearm is laying on the ... |
| Date: | 10 24 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Two medics tend to a wounded soldier laying on a cot at a field hospital at Okinawa. |
| Date: | 04 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldier L. Heims, seated outdoors on the back of a loaded vehicle, smiling broadly while reading a letter. Other smiling soldiers are in the background. |
| Date: | 04 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Several members of the 4th Marines, some standing in the road and others seated on vehicles at Ishikawa shortly after the city fell. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Four shirtless soldiers strain to push a large gun over sandy terrain in Panama. Each man also wears a helmet and carries a backpack, a rifle, and a cantee... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| 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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