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| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the east side of a temporary office building under construction at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. Several cars are par... |
| Date: | 07 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four people standing in a muddy excavated hole for a footing at the Ordnance Steel Foundry. The Foundry may have served as part of Interna... |
| Date: | 07 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men pouring and smoothing cement on the construction site of the Ordnance Steel Foundry Company. The Foundry may have served as part of International Harve... |
| Date: | 09 18 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on ladders while working on the side of a building at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Another man is standing near... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns. |
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| Description: | A soldier hacks a path through a jungle in Panama with a machete while smoking a cigarette. |
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| Description: | A man testing telegraph equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
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| Description: | A group of Naval students learn to use hacksaws in a machine shop at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
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| Description: | Two men are repairing typewriters at a table at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the gloved hands of a pair of surgeons as they begin to operate on a patient in Japan. One person is holding a scalpel over a portion of an exposed... |
| Date: | 04 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men working together to move a box marked "Human Blood" at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. They are aboard a tank landing ship pontoon float. One man is w... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier at a base in Panama uses a cleaver to open a can of rhubarb sitting on a counter near a large pot. He is wearing a cap, a sleeveless shirt, and p... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry working among lumber in Panama. One man iswearing a hat and squatting on top of a pile of lumber while holding a hammer... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men working on a B-29 bomber, just returned from its first fire raid on Tokyo. The men are on top of the plane, opening a hatch. They are both shirtles... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Men working on a Marine Aircraft Group plane at Ulithi airport. One man is standing near the nose of the plan, looking inside. He is shirtless and wearing ... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Private first class Ann D. Dozier, a refrigerating engineer from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, posing for a photograph at the Mauna Loa R... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A young indigenous woman wearing a flower in her hair poses with an older woman who is balancing a basket on her head on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea... |
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