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Buna (vicinity), New Guinea. Native stretcher bearers in New Guinea carrying American wounded from the front lines pause to rest themselves and the soldiers in the shade of a coconut grove, enroute to hospitals in the rear

Unloading wounded soldier from an assault boat. Soldiers wounded at the front are moved to the hospital in this manner. New Guinea

Unloading wounded soldier from an assault boat. Soldiers wounded at the front are moved to the hospital in this manner. New Guinea

Wounded American soldiers given medical attention in New Guinea

A couple of men walking down a muddy road. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a horse drawn carriage. Office of War Information Photograph

An old photo of a group of people in front of a tent - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

Natives aid Allied drive in New Guinea jungles. New Guinea natives receive the same medical attention as Allied troops, since their work is of vital aid to the Allied forces. Corporal McNicol, medical orderly at one of the forward outposts in the New Guinea jungle, attends one of the native carriers passing through the area

A wounded American soldier gets a blood transfusion while assistants hover about the improvised cot. The scene is "somewhere in New Guinea"

Buna (vicinity), New Guinea. Native stretcher bearers in New Guinea carrying American wounded from the front lines pause to rest themselves and the soldiers in the shade of a coconut grove, enroute to hospitals in the rear

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Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1942
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buna
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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[Native American mortuary customs: row of Indians carrying bodies over their shoulders to fires, platform with skeletons hanging above and bones below on benches, and groups of Indians standing around fires and poles hung with cloth or skins]

An English tea planter on horseback at Gampola rest house

Native sail boats between Bombay and Karachi on Gulf of Kutch

San Francisco, California. First aid demonstration at the Presidio of the proper method of treating an abdominal wound by keeping it moist until the patient can be removed to a field hospital, perhaps by improvising a stretcher by army blankets and rifles

Wrapping the finished tire. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Even when you see the tire-wrapping machine in operation, it is difficult to understand how it works....spinning a strand of paper around a tire as fast as the operator can feed them in. All the operator need do is place the tire in position; the machine does the rest. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

ARMY, U.S. SIGNAL CORPS CONSTRUCTING LINES IN PHILIPPINES

[Native Americans] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Iraq. Kifl. Native Moslem [i.e., Muslim] village with a Jewish shrine to the prophet Ezekiel. Jewish rabbi reading. At the entrance to the shrine

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels wheat per acre. He has lived on the place forty years and owned it for the past twenty.

Papua New Guinea. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Johnny, what distinguished foreigner aided the Americans after the Revolution?" Johnny, after a pause: "God" / / William L. Jacobs.

Palmyra (Tadmor). Native village among ruins of Temple of the Sun

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