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  • Collection: World War II - Fall 2023

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Pvt Theodore James Miller (12 February 1925 – 24 March 1944) from Minnesota returns to attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at 14:00 after two days of combat on Engebi, the first of the Eniwetok Atoll to be invaded by American forces. Most…

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Japanese people finding time for extracurricular entertainment at the internment camps following Pearl Harbor.

This rarely seen U.S. Navy film BATTLE FATIGUE DEALING WITH FEAR was produced during or just after WWII, and attempts to explain the condition known as "Battle Fatigue" or what we now describe as PTSD or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. It was…

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Photograph showing aerial view of a British RAF bomber and trails of light from incendiaries reigning down on the shipbuilding yards in Hamburg.

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Bombing of Hong Kong by the 14th Air Force.

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This image shows burns on the legs of a victim of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

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The poster portrays the name of the movie "Casablanca" as well as the name of the director, key actors, and a picture of several characters in the film.

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View of General William S. Knudsen, Charles E. Sorensen and Edsel Ford posing with group of men in front of military plane at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Handwritten on back: "Knudsen, William S. (6th from left), Edsel Ford (8th from…

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Dresden Germany is destroyed following firebombing attacks

ARC Identifier 35906 / Local Identifier 111-M-1197. Reel 1, combat exhaustion cases are brought to an aid station, Army doctors are lectured on combat fatigue, and "hysteria" cases are examined. Reel 2 describes physical disorders resulting from…
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