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| Date: | 11 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Bob Eunson, a war correspondent for Associated Press, gazes up at damage to a warplane at Wards Drome (5 Mile), an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea (... |
| Date: | 11 13 1943 |
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| Description: | View looking up at three war correspondents, (left to right), Robert Doyle of the Milwaukee Journal, Bob Eunson of Associated Press and Ralph Boyce ... |
| Date: | 11 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Ralph Boyce of YANK, the Army Weekly magazine, looks up at damage to a warplane at Wards Drome (5 Mile), an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea (... |
| Date: | 11 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th... |
| Date: | 11 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Crew Chief Master Sergeant Harold Kuba of Appleton, Wisconsin, leans out of the cockpit window of his warplane. The nose art, "Connell's Special" appears o... |
| Date: | 10 18 1943 |
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| Description: | Mechanic Staff Sergeant Raymond Wagner of Boscobel, Wisconsin, poses shirtless while holding a cigarette and standing next to the nose art on his Consolida... |
| Date: | 10 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Arthur L. Post of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot down on June 20th, 1943 and rescued on September 28th, 1943 after 101 days in the jungle. Here he is... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Arthur L. Post of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot down on June 20th, 1943 and rescued on September 28th, 1943 after 101 days in the jungle. Here he is... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle admires the golden oak leaf of Major Post's collar insignia. They are standing in front of the tail assembly of a plane similar to Post's. Maj... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Three Wisconsin soldiers pose in front of the nose art on their warplane, "Bedroom Commando," depicting a sleepwalker in a nightshirt and slippers, carryin... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Michigan soldiers loading bombs onto a trailer at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names, left to right,... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Armament Chief Sergeant Lloyd Cleary sits on the nose of a warplane with his feet on the propeller at an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present da... |
| Date: | 01 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Military trucks, jeeps and planes at the Lae Airstrip, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Lae was a Japanese occupied airstrip until September 16, ... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of three soldiers working on the engine of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane h... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A soldier sits in a bulldozer parked under the nose of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Another man i... |
| Date: | 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the airfield at Royal Air Force station Steeple Morden, located 3.5 miles west of Royston, Hertfordshire, England. The 355th Fighter Group... |
| Date: | 02 22 1945 |
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| Description: | The batter swings at an exhibition baseball game on a Naval Base on Kwajalein Island of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. Both teams had Big Leagu... |
| Date: | 03 06 1945 |
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| Description: | An ATC (Air Transport Command) Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft is being loaded by two soldiers at the air base on Kwajalein Island of the Marshall Islands ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | View of a paratrooper just about to jump from the side door of a warplane. He is wearing the full kit and is carrying a rifle. It is likely that this is a ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | From the caption that accompanied the image: "Fellow workers in civilian life, these Milwaukeeans met recently on Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall islands. ... |
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