3,220 items in this album on 161 pages.
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| A Japanese soldier guarding the Russo-Japanese border on Sakhalin Island at the 50th parallel, Karafuto Prefecture, Japan, circa mid 1940s | A WAAF corporal checking a delivery of 20mm Hispano cannon shells before being loaded onto a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft of No. 96 Squadron RAF at RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943-1945 |
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| A WAAF driver turning the starting handle of a Standard 5-cwt van, Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1940s | A WAAF flight officer examining an aerial photograph with two Canadian photographic reconnaissance pilots, Benson, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943 |
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| A WAAF leading aircraftwoman driver at the wheel of a Fordson 15-cwt van at Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s | A WAAF member transposing a plain language message into perforated morse tape while the other threaded the tape into a high-speed transmitter, Headquarters No. 60 (Signals) Group, RAF Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown |
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| A WAAF officer, acompanied by a flight sergeant, inspecting a squad of WAAF Policewomen, RAF Police School at RAF Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1940s | A WAAF orderly dispatching messages by Lamson tube, 1940s |
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| A WAAF storewoman checking parts in the spares section at No. 16 Maintenance Unit, RAF Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown | Above-ground oil tank farm at Pearl Habor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1940s |
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| Acting Superintendent Mrs. Bolton of Women's Voluntary Service's Services Club at Chester House speaking to members of ATS and WAAF, Clarendon Place, Paddington, London, England, 1943 | Actress Carole Gladly entertaining officers and men of US Army 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment, date unknown |
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| Aerial view of Voronezh, Russia, 1943 | African-American factory workers Cecil M. Coles and Juanita E. Gray working on a lathe machine, which the latter was being trained to use, Washington, DC, United States, date unknown |
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| African-American pilots of the US Army 15th AAF squadron, date unknown; The Three Minute Egg Club denotes they had returned to base from combat with less than 3 minutes' worth of fuel at least once | African-American sailor George C. Fields, formerly Franklin Roosevelt's valet, showing his honor certificate from US Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, United States, circa 1943 |
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| African-American swing musician Earl 'Fatha' Hines with US Army Private Charles Carpenter, his former manager, Camp Lee, Virginia, United States, date unknown | African-American Theodore R. Poston, head of the Negro Press Section of the US Office of War Information, date unknown |
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| African-American troops of the US Army performing daily rifle calisthenics, Field Artillery Replacement Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States, Feb 1943 | African-American US Army pilots being briefed for a practice bombing raid, Selfridge Field, Michigan, United States, 1943 |
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