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| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Artillerymen of Battalion A are ready for an enemy attack in a gun pit, at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A knife is standing point dow... |
| Date: | 01 24 1944 |
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| Description: | "Beach Road," Robert Doyle's caption in the Milwaukee Journal said it best, "Saidor travel Bureau never reports roads impassable as long as wheels a... |
| 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: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Arthur L. Post of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot down on June 20th, 1943 and rescued on September 28th, 1943 after 101 days in the jungle. Here he is... |
| Date: | 10 24 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle's caption says it best, "The ol' swimmin' hole, South Pacific style. Every afternoon it is filled with shouting soldiers in their birthday sui... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Arthur L. Post of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot down on June 20th, 1943 and rescued on September 28th, 1943, after 101 days in the jungle. Here Post... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Arthur L. Post of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot down on June 20th, 1943 and rescued on September 28th, 1943, after 101 days in the jungle. Here is t... |
| Date: | 09 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle wrote a caption for this image although it was not published at that time, "Rough and tough Wisconsin rangers, who helped storm Normandy beach... |
| Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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| Description: | A Fita Fita Guard poses in his uniform of red cap, white skivvy shirt and white lava lava (a Samoan kilt). Shoes are not worn. The Fita Fita Guards are a s... |
| Date: | 01 13 1944 |
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| Description: | An animal caught at the Nadzab Airport. Robert Doyle described it as a "Possum-like animal, White thick fur with brown splotches - Pink face, feet. Big eye... |
| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Sergeant Walter Schaefer of Port Washington, Wisconsin, swings from a rope over an extremely muddy road just after a truck has just driven through at a mil... |
| Date: | 12 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Ordnance Lieutenant Elroy Derksen of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, glances up from writing on papers laying on the hood of his jeep at a military base in New Guine... |
| Date: | 01 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Four Army officers pose for a group portrait at a military camp on the north coast of New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names (left to right) are ... |
| Date: | 01 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Three men sit on improvised seats (boards on barrels) at the T-Beach Whittling Club, located on the north coast of New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea... |
| Date: | 10 24 1943 |
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| Description: | Three officers of General Walter Krueger's staff stand on a log in front of a swimming hole located on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p... |
| Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle's caption that ran with this photograph: "Here is a general view of the beachhead at Saidor seized by the Red Arrow task force. Several ships ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 09 19 1943 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin paratroopers in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), pose holding a captured Japanese marine banner and pistol they brought b... |
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