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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three marines dressed in uniform, carrying packs and holding guns, pull an ammunition cart through the water towards the beach at Iwo Jima. Military boats ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Anthony R. Buzzelli opens an ammunition box with an axe for Marines battling on Iwo Jima. Another man on the right appears to be openin... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of marines Private Richard Klatt, of North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (left), and Private First Class Wilfred Voegeli, as they set fire to brush ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The front at Nago, Okinawa. A uniformed soldier stands on a rocky outcropping near bushes. Misty or smoky hillsides are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 08 19 1943 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers inspect a knife at Kiriwina Beach Camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They are standing in ... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from aboard ship looking down on a soldier in a turret operating a range finder. These warships were participating in the heavy bombardment o... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Navigation instruments on an American cruiser were checked by Lieutenant Commander Leonard Meyer of Appleton. Three other crew members are nearby. The crui... |
| Date: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Artillerymen prepare to leave their camp in Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea) on a patrol that would last several days. They were to search... |
| Date: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Carl Krejci of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, carries a heavy load as he leaves on patrol from camp in Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papu... |
| Date: | 09 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers with a 105mm Howitzer near Brest, France. Camouflage netting is over their heads. Names, (left to right) are Private First Class Thomas Greatorex ... |
| Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Fita Fita guard turns out daily at 8:00 a.m. for color raising cer... |
| Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Fita Fita guard turns out daily at 8:00 a.m. for color raising cer... |
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