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Soldiers Playing Softball during the Persian Gulf War

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Description: Soldiers playing softball in the desert during the Persian Gulf War.
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Persian Gulf War

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Description: Scene in the Saudi Arabian desert during the Persian Gulf War. Soldiers are visible in the distance.
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Telephone Point in the Persian Gulf War

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Description: Telephone facility complete with satellite uplink antennae, Humvees and 6x6 trucks in the Persian Gulf War.
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War Memorial Center

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Description: View uphill towards the War Memorial Center.
Poster

World War II Victory Garden Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h...
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Soldiers Playing Volleyball

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Description: Soldiers playing volleyball in the desert during the Persian Gulf War.
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World War I Training

Date: 08 1917
Description: World War I recruits scramble over an obstacle during their training, while others watch in the background.
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Burning Oil Wells

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Description: View of burning oil wells in the desert during the Persian Gulf War.
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Eduard Frankl Astride a Camel

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Description: Mr. Frankl as a war photographer with the Turkish Army.
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Polish Legion Trumpeter

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Firing Line

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Sunday Military Church Service in South Tyrol

Date: 1914
Description: Sunday mass for Austrian soldiers, members of a "Tiroler Standschützen" unit, in South Tyrol during World War I.
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Transportation of Wounded

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Description: Transporting wounded soldiers in the Carpathians.
Drawing

Landscape

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Description: A vague image of a landscape with trees.
Map or Atlas

Henrico Co., Virginia, With Additions, Showing the Defensive Lines and Works of Richmond

Date: 1864
Description: This map created during the Civil War indicates Confederate fortifications, houses, names of residents, towns, roads, railroads, relief by hachures, draina...
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Sharpshooters of the Polish Legion

Date: 1914
Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Officers of the Polish Legion

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Beef Cattle

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Description: Beef cattle passing through an opening in barbed wire on the Lavarone plateau which is located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy...
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Observing the Enemy

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Description: Observing enemy activity from the plateau of Lavarone. The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy.
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Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair war damage. caused by the Montenegrans. Soldiers drilling into rock on the side of the mountains.

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