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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1945 |
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| Description: | The caption in the Milwaukee Journal, says it best, "From the far-off Pacific (somewhere on Kwajalein), the picture of Ensign Ray Hanson and Robert ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A homemade motorboat on the beach on Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific. Robert Doyle notes that "belly tanks" were used in the boat construction. A buildin... |
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