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| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and a woman. Some of the men are dressed in overalls and are using telephones in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field.... |
| 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: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International Harvester calendar showing a woman sitting in the seat of a tractor with the image of soldiers eating in the clouds above. A caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers gather in a large classroom at Camp Perry for a class on crawler tractors. A blackboard and various military vehicles are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers stand at attention while lines of men walk past. Men are working on a roof and scaffold around a steeple on a building in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 25, "Blue Prints." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is an explosive battle scene in shades of dark blue. On the ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly Corporal James H. Mills, operating a Farmall H tractor in what appears to be an apple orchard. Corporal Mills was presented with a tractor ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | American soldier purchasing something from a food cart, a scene photographed by conservationist Sigurd Olson while traveling in Europe immediately after th... |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st... |
| Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Indigenous villagers pose with Robert Doyle (7th from left) and NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific.... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Casual portrait of photographer Sergeant Dick Hanley, smiling broadly and perched on the spare tire of a jeep, of YANK Army Weekly magazine. In his ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp are being loaded onto a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
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