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| Date: | 05 08 1945 |
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| Description: | Two women and three men (one in uniform) gathered around a table listening to a radio commentary on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United... |
| Date: | 02 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of group of women gathered around a table. "Leap year baby" of 1924, Anita Burr, is shown with a birthday cake, after enlisting in t... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of men sit in a store and drink soda at Fort Sill. Draftee Charles J. Richard is among the men. Richard was a former International Harvester employ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Private Roger Kolkmeyer types on a typewriter. Kolkmeyer was a company clerk at Fort Sill. He was a former employee of the (?) Department general office of... |
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| Description: | Carter Wells on leave during WWII. Wells came back to run for 5th district congress and was unsuccessful. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Marines using a plane table to figure firing data at an artillery range at Camp Elliot, near San Diego. The men of the 10th Marines standing around the tab... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, visiting with her parents as she prepares to leave U.S. soil. Jensen is kneeling on the floor as her parents are sitting on a be... |
| 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: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Three war correspondents napping on a cot in the Public Relations office at Earls Colne Airfield, England, on D-Day. Many newspaper articles are pinned on ... |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle types stories about the Red Arrow Division in his tent while seated on his cot. The tent sides are tied open. A crate serves as a typewriter s... |
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