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Artist
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Medium & Support
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Creation Date
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In the protection of an artificial fog, Japanese Navy troops make a landing on Malacca coast, Strait of Malacca
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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January 1942
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American soldiers wade ashore through waist-high surf to storm Wake Island. Japanese defenders opened fire but were soon forced back.
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United States Navy Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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May 16, 1944
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Soldiers and Navy Seabees take time to wash their clothes after the invasion of Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Group
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Prist, Frank
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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March 23, 1944
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As the second wave of infantry charges ashore on Wake Island, one invader slips to his knees in the surf, hit by Japanese machine gun fire
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Simon, Sidney
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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June 1944
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Tank invasion troops hustle into line as they board an invasion barge for the attack on Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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July 1943
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Allied invasion forces, made up mostly of New Zealanders, pour men and equipment onto the beach of Treasury Island in the Solomon Islands
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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October 27, 1943 - November 12, 1943
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At left, Australian troops pour out of a landing craft onto the beach northwest of Lae, New Guinea. At right, blind-folded German U-boat survivors march on the deck of an English destroyer.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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April 22, 1943
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Leathernecks crawl up to a sand ridge on Tarawa Island as a Marine Corps squad leader points out the spot from which Japanese are firing on them
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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November 1943
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U.S. Coast Guardsmen look over Japanese dead on Makin Island
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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November 1943
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U.S. Marines kneel in tribute to their fallen comrades after the bloody battle that preceded the American invasion of Tarawa. Father C. C. Riedel, USMC, of Chicago, says mass.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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November 1943
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During the seizure of Mono Island, an American soldier lies dead and another is submerged in the water behind him.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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October 27, 1943 - November 12, 1943
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U.S. infantrymen pass a blazing Japanese ammunition dump as they advance in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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Spring 1944
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Examining the Japanese equivalent of a jeep left behind by retreating Japanese in the Hollandia area are (left to right) Lt. Thomas Bakewell of New York, Capt. John O'Dell of Detroit, Michigan, and Lt. Truman Bishop of Almont, Michigan
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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Spring 1944
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A 32nd Division tank on the beach during the invasion of Japanese-held Saidor in Papua New Guinea
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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January 2, 1944
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U.S. Marines stop briefly in their advance through the jungles of New Britain to examine the first Japanese soldier killed by their outfit in the invasion
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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December 26, 1943 - January 16, 1944
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