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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View of base of the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun in a factory, possibly International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Large group of marines are outdoors firing from a sitting position at a firing range, possibly at a Marine Corps firing range at La Jolla, California. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two Marine captains talking at a Marine Corps rifle range. In the background, Marines are shooting at targets on a far hill. |
| Date: | 04 24 1941 |
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| Description: | View along railroad track of railroad cars loaded with crawler tractors (TracTracTors) at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of a Nazi Youth camp found by Sigurd Olson during his travels in Germany, either late in 1945 or early in 1946. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Car in a parade carrying a sign that reads "Let us pray...God damn Hitler." A large crowd watches the parade from bleachers along the side of the road. The... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register... |
| Date: | 12 1942 |
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| Description: | An explosion set by trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama in a rural area, with trees and shrubs in the forground. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men posing during a training exercise on cutting barbed wire at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama. The men are on their stomachs crawling thro... |
| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor... |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | Soldiers watching a Nazi rally in Danzig from which American correspondent Alvin Steinkopf was reporting for the Associated Press in 1939. |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | A crowd of civilians attending a Nazi rally in Danzig. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A snapshot, taken during the summer, of the Jewish temple being demolished in Danzig. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene of people in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, being addressed by two German soldiers. The scene was witnessed by American journalist A... |
| 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... |
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