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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, later a Wisconsin senator, posing as a tail gunner during World War II in Douglas SBD Bomber. McCarthy was an intelligen... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, a Marine intelligence officer, interviewing pilots who have just returned from raids on Japanese installations in the Solomon I... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Airman trainee in cockpit of biplane with two flight instructors standing next to the plane at Truax Field during World War II. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and dozer shovel loader to unload supplies on a beach. A ship is in the background. The ori... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the gloved hands of a pair of surgeons as they begin to operate on a patient in Japan. One person is holding a scalpel over a portion of an exposed... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Paratroopers at a Drome (airfield) near Port Moresby, preparing to take off for a landing at Nadzab near Lae. Lae is a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea... |
| 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: | 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: | 12 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Three Wisconsin women and a man pose in front of a building. In the foreground is a rack holding rubber gloves. Names, left to right, are Lieutenant Kathle... |
| Date: | 08 25 1944 |
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| Description: | A roadside stop in Normandy, France. Two men are posing next to the parked jeep, which has "ADA" stenciled below the windshield. The man in front partially... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tank fording a river. Two soldiers are standing in the hatches on the gun turret, with another soldier in a partially opened hatch below... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A smiling Robert Doyle is transferred between two ships using a manila highline in a transfer-at-sea chair, also called a boatswain's chair. He is wearing ... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | View of a soldier seated on rocky ground looking off to the left. Behind him and to the right a row of soldiers are behind sandbags, and behind them are a ... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldier offering food to Japanese women and children gathered on a roadside in Okinawa. One woman wears a baby on her back. Other soldiers watch from a jee... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Four shirtless soldiers strain to push a large gun over sandy terrain in Panama. Each man also wears a helmet and carries a backpack, a rifle, and a cantee... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A.P Correspondent Lochner and his colleague of the pre-war Berlin Bureau, Al Steinkopf, meet at the battered airport of Aachen, Germany. |
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| Description: | Louis P. Lochner, somewhere in Germany, stands next to a Nazi soldier seated in a piece of artillery. In the background are more soldiers. Lochner is weari... |
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