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National Defense Photo Montage

Date: 1942
Description: Montage of machines and armaments produced by International Harvester for the war effort. Included are images of jeeps, crawler tractors (TracTracTors), an...
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Harvester Battalion Instructors

Date: 1942
Description: Eight officers assigned to train the "Harvester Battalion" stand in a line in a field for a group portrait. In the background is a row of numbers. The men ...
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Class at Camp Perry

Date: 1942
Description: A group of uniformed military men sit in wooden chairs inside a building at Camp Perry as they are instructed on various kinds of machinery. Two chalkboard...
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Small Arms Class

Date: 1942
Description: A group of uniformed soldiers sit at tables in a room at Camp Perry to be instructed in a small arms class. Firearms are on the table in front of each pers...
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Second Harvester Maintenance Battalion at Camp Perry

Date: 09 1942
Description: Group of Army recruits in formation. Original caption reads: "The 609th Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalion, recruited from IH operations... pictu...
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Soldiers Studying Map

Date: 1942
Description: Three uniformed men study a map placed on a desk. The original caption reads: "STUDYING THE BATTALION'S NEXT HOME. Lt. Col. D.L. Van Syckle (right), comman...
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Mess Office at Camp George Meade

Date: 1941
Description: Two uniformed men of the Medical Battalion's Company B stand with the mess sergeant to inspect a piece of poultry from the refrigerator in the mess office ...
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Field Kitchen at Camp Elliott

Date: 1941
Description: Group of men at field kitchen at Camp Elliot. According to the original caption, the man "with loaded mess kit is Derwood W. Hooper, Second Medical Detachm...
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Soldiers at Attention

Date: 1943
Description: A group of soldiers stand at attention while lines of men walk past. Men are working on a roof and scaffold around a steeple on a building in the backgroun...
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International Truck at Military Encampment

Date: 1944
Description: A man stands near an International dump truck marked: "USMC 35894 - Camp Pendleton." The truck bed is raised, releasing a pile of dirt in front of an encam...
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Two Marine Captains at Rifle Range

Date: 1941
Description: Two Marine captains talking at a Marine Corps rifle range. In the background, Marines are shooting at targets on a far hill.
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Woman Operating International A Tractor at Military Base

Date: 1942
Description: A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t...
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Military Lunch Break

Date: 1944
Description: Soldiers sit around International crawler tractors, waiting to receive instruction from a man during a lunch break. The original caption reads: "Group rece...
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Marines Operating Gun at Camp Elliott

Date: 1942
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.
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Condensing Unit Installation at Camp George G. Meade

Date: 1941
Description: Men standING near an International condensing unit as it is being installed at Camp George G. Meade. The men appear to be examining a melon.
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International Trucks at Military Base

Date: 1944
Description: A man uses a truck marked "USMC 66750" to haul a wrecked vehicle through a parking lot at what might be Camp Pendleton. There are numerous vehicles and bui...
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Marines at Rifle Range

Date: 1941
Description: Large group of marines are outdoors firing from a sitting position at a firing range, possibly at a Marine Corps firing range at La Jolla, California.
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Marines Training with Springfield Rifles

Date: 1941
Description: Overhead view of U.S. Marines firing rifles, possibly at a Marine Corps rifle range.
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Marines at Artillery Range at Camp Elliott

Date: 1941
Description: Marines using a plane table to figure firing data at an artillery range at Camp Elliot, near San Diego. The men of the 10th Marines standing around the tab...
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Camp Pendleton Groundskeeping with International A

Date: 1944
Description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and overalls uses an International Model A tractor to maintain an area of brush at the Camp Pendleton airfield. Tents ar...

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