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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Poster for International Harvester dealerships promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Features caricatures of Adolf Hitler and ... |
| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring illustrations of a worker chasing caricatures of a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) and Adolf Hitler, and a soldier firing a machin... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing a factory worker hitting a caricature of Adolf Hitler on the head with a tool. Includes the text: "Your tools are weapons... take care of th... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing a tank and a tractor, with the text: "Both are weapons our farm and fighting forces depend on you." The poster was printed for the Labor-Man... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Although handwriting identifies this photograph as "Machine gun supporting tank attack," it is likely, since the print is also identified as having been ta... |
| 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: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Brigidier General Ralph E. Immell, visiting the World War I room in the State Historical Society Museum with Lieut. Col. Franklin W. Clarke, commandant, Mi... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three members of the much-decorated 32nd Division manning a machine gun emplacement in New Guinea. They are, left to right: Lawrence Leishman of Peoria, I... |
| Date: | 01 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Sergeant Peter Merkel, a member of the 32nd Division from Milwaukee, firing a mortar somewhere in New Guinea. |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of Dutch Underground arresting a German soldier on the day of liberation in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of uniformed men ride in the back of an International vehicle which is towing a firearm. The original caption reads: "M-2-4 truck and 75-mm. gun, a... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 34, "Let Em' Have It." The poster features a soldier preparing to throw a grenade over barbed wire into a burning field. In the bottom ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 31, "Tanks in Action." The poster features tanks and soldiers pressing forward in a battle scene. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 16, "Army Anti-Aircraft." The poster features four soldiers operating anti-aircraft artillery. In the bottom right corner it reads: "At... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 15, "Navy Anti-Aircraft." The poster features four sailors operating anti-aircraft artillery. In the bottom left corner it reads: "At l... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 14, "Merchant Marine." The poster features four sailors operating heavy ship artillery. In the bottom right corner it reads: "At least ... |
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