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| Date: | 09 07 1944 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Inc., window display promoting saving paper. Shows fake bomb falling on various ammunition with slogans that read: "Get in the Scrap," "... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | World War II poster of a bloody dagger with the text, "Remember... and they will stall our production too. If they can." The advertisement was printed fo... |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Mabel Pendleton is shown holding German knives with a German flag on a table. The items, retired from service, were sent by her son, Sgt. Frederick N. Hall... |
| Date: | 10 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Earl Otto, an executive of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, takes a turn during the machine gun test of the laminate plastic panels being devel... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of Dutch Underground arresting a German soldier on the day of liberation in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers stand outside firing booths to conduct testing at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | A factory worker operates a vertical broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Vertical bro... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect parts at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Many small parts for the gun a... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Fifty-seven millimeter artillery pieces stored in an International Harvester factory building. A flag and a poster are hanging from the rafters. |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers operating automatic screw machines at an International Harvester aircraft torpedo factory. Caption on photograph reads: "Two batteri... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker James Matzke raises the barrel of a 20mm cannon onto a receiving block to be inspected by Beverly Ackerman at International Harvester's St. ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Stella Ringstrand mills a 20mm gun part at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker William Nolan works on the final assembly of a 20 mm cannon before proof firing at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns. |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | A patrol officer from the 14th Infantry, based in Fort Davis, Panama, follows his compass through the jungle. The patrol officer has a small cigarette in o... |
| Date: | 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Group of Army recruits in formation. Original caption reads: "The 609th Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalion, recruited from IH operations... pictu... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Colonel Van Syckle inspects the rifle of soldier Morris J. Fortin, formerly an employee of International Harvester's Salina branch. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac... |
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| Description: | Illustration art of American World War II soldiers walking single file on a wooden planked bridge with guide rope. The foreshortening perspective shows boo... |
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