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| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Cele... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | General Douglas MacArthur congratulates Richard I. Bong, World War II Ace of Aces from Poplar, Wisconsin, after awarding him the Congressional Medal of Hon... |
| Date: | 04 02 1945 |
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| Description: | U. S. Navy V-12 Chorus, sailors and WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), at the Stock Pavilion, "3rd Anniversary Happy Hour." |
| Date: | 12 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio), Division #41, trainees, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with Christmas tree in the foreground. |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the grave site of Sparky, with one man playing taps. ... |
| Date: | 11 03 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) Band in Great Hall of the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Halloween decoration in the back... |
| Date: | 08 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Couples enjoy the "Moonlight Formal" in Tripp Commons, University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. They are in formal dress with some of the men in military un... |
| Date: | 01 03 1944 |
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| Description: | United States Army safety award banner presented to the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. Employees are grouped around it. |
| Date: | 07 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Theodore E. Christianson and Bernice M. Huffman exiting from Bethel Lutheran Church after their wedding, 318 Wisconsin Avenue, with a military Arch of Hono... |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | War hero Capt. Richard I. Bong, of Poplar, Wisconsin, credited with knocking out 21 Japanese planes in the South Pacific, shaking hands with Governor Walte... |
| Date: | 08 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Display of German "war junk," including fire arms and clothing, exhibited at the East Side Business Men's Festival. The souvenirs on display were collected... |
| Date: | 08 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Display of German "war junk," including fire arms, clothing and a German Nazi flag, at the East Side Business Men's Festival. The souvenirs displayed were... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United... |
| Date: | 02 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of group of women gathered around a table. "Leap year baby" of 1924, Anita Burr, is shown with a birthday cake, after enlisting in t... |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Axel Olson, father of Sgt. Truman O. Olson, deceased, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor from Col. W. Lutz Krigbaum on behalf of his son, who was k... |
| Date: | 05 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Howard A. Endres standing in line for his final meal at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, before being discharged at the end of World War II. |
| Date: | 08 06 1945 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal columnist, visiting with an old friend, Sgt. "Red" White, 32nd Division veteran, who returned to Madison ... |
| Date: | 08 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Four soldiers, one with liquor bottle and two others with noisemakers, standing on the Capitol Square. They are celebrating V-J Day, August 15, the day on ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin shaking hands with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson as they renew their acquaintance from attending a baseball game in Chicago when Royal Thompso... |
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