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| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | A street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland. In his scrapbook, journalist Alvin Steinkopf, who took the picture, noted that conditions were f... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Continental Transportation Lines, Inc. operating an International semi-truck on a highway with an industrial area in the background. Original caption reads... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Continental Transportation Lines, Inc. operating an International semi-truck (tractor-trailer) on a road with a hazy view of a bridge, a body of water and ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck with refrigerated semi-trailer (semi truck) parked next to a box car near a warehouse building. Original caption reads: "Meat and... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Continental Transportation Lines, Inc. operating an International truck tractor on an urban highway. A bridge, houses and industrial buildings are in the b... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | General view of Port Moresby Harbor from road, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A jeep is on the road on the left. Several soldiers are near a sh... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Aussie Military Policeman standing on a Port Moresby main street with his hand raised, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Jeeps and soldiers are on... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | View of the attack on Brest, France, an important Channel port, from German forces on Hill 105. Eventually, after a fierce defense, the Germans surrendered... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | View of distant smoke from the battle surrounding Brest, France. In the foreground, soldiers are parked in a large field with an air support radio jeep. Th... |
| Date: | 09 11 1944 |
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| Description: | View from indoors of a smiling eleven-year-old girl posing in an open window that opens onto the street in Landerneau, France. Robert Doyle, war correspond... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Rubble and destruction in Brest, France. A few trees and a sign are still standing. Bombed-out buildings are in the background. Robert Doyle's caption read... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers in the lower left look at a map. Behind them is what remains of the Brest Post Office. Just under the decorative stone cornice at the top is t... |
| Date: | 02 24 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of students at the London Missionary Society School, Tutuila Mission located in Tutuila, American Samoa. The group is posed sitting on the concrete... |
| Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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| Description: | A Fita Fita Guard poses in his uniform of red cap, white skivvy shirt and white lava lava (a Samoan kilt). Shoes are not worn. The Fita Fita Guards are a s... |
| 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: | 08 28 2004 |
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| Description: | The Normandy Interpretive Center groundbreaking ceremony. Soldiers carrying the American flag march between two tents filled with guests. Participants in t... |
| Date: | 08 06 1965 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison student holding a placard in front of a speaker at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol commemorating the atom bo... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of people stand in a graveyard in Lemberg, Poland as German victims of a massacre are buried. |
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