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| Date: | 02 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Corporal Duane Haralson with his parents, Rufus and Naomi, in the kitchen of their home at 604 Schiller Court. He was home after two years service in the M... |
| Date: | 04 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Marine Pfc. Robert Reif, Mrs. Sarah Reif, and Marine Corp. Patricia Reif. The children are on military leave after being gone for 18 months. |
| Date: | 07 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Staff Sargeant Harland Lippolt with his wife, and daughter Maxine whom he had never seen during his two years in the South Pacific, where he served with a ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles W. Piper, veteran of World War I, discussing tactics of the two World Wars with his sons, Seaman Vincent on the left, and Marine Private Charles on... |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Axel Olson with his sons Earl and Richard inspecting the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to son and brother Sgt. Truman O. Olson. Truman ... |
| Date: | 03 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Corporal William (Bill) Lovelace, 319 North Blair Street, returning home after spending one year hiding from the Japanese and two years in a Japanese priso... |
| Date: | 06 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Fred M. Hoffman standing by a piano with photographs of seven of his sons, and a U.S. Air Corps banner. Five are still in the military service, two receive... |
| Date: | 06 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Howard A. Endres with his parents, William & Dorothy Endres, home on furlough after Victory in Europe Day to visit his parents at 25 S. Charter Street... |
| Date: | 07 02 1945 |
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| Description: | First Lieut. Robert V. Merklein is showing his father, O.F. Merklein, the location of Yokohama, where he downed his first Japanese plane. |
| Date: | 10 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Major William N. Donovan with his wife and daughter. He had just returned to Madison after 39 months as a Japanese prisoner. Their daughter, Josie, was bor... |
| Date: | 12 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor... |
| Date: | 10 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Dale N. Gillings, center, of Middleton and a former naval aviation radioman receives the Distinguished Flying Cross from Commander J.E. McCue of the Madiso... |
| Date: | 06 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Ellen Fletcher used an inheritance to fly her mother and father in-laws from Birmingham, England to Madison to witness their sons graduation from... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h... |
| 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: | 08 29 1943 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin cousins, (left) Corporal Englund Johnson, bomber waist gunner, of Park Falls and (right) Sergeant Donald Englund, airplane engine mechanic, o... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A rickety ladder serves (Sergeant) Technician 4th Grade John Duray (left), and his brother, Staff Sergeant Isador Duray, both of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in the... |
| Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Twin soldiers, Corporal John Kellner (left) and Private First Class Bob Kellner (right) of Milwaukee get a drink at the lister bag, in the camp on Goodenou... |
| Date: | 04 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Twin soldiers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pose on a pile of rubble with a dog at the Army base on Guam, in the South Pacific. On the left is Corporal Robert... |
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