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Training World War I Mechanics

Date: 1918
Description: Training classes for University of Wisconsin student cadets in the repair of automobiles and trucks during World War I.
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Essential Work in Enemy Territory

Date: 1915
Description: A soldier is doing repair work on a telephone pole in Serbia during World War I.
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Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair war damage caused by the Montenegrins. Vehicles are being pulled up a detour path on the mountain.
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Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair war damage caused by the Montenegrins. Vehicles are being pulled up a detour path on the mountain.
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Replacement Tires

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Description: Replacement automobile tires and inner tubes.
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Russian Prisoners Working

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Description: Russian prisoners working to restore the destroyed train station in Skiernewize.
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Cattaro

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Description: Vehicles being maintained and readied for use.
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Destroyed Bridge

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Description: The destroyed bridge in the park at Skiernewize (Skierniewice), which has been replaced by the Germans with a first-rate emergency bridge.
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Life in Skutari

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Description: Returning Turkish merchant reopening his store in Skutari, Albania.
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Repairing Bad Roads in Enemy Territory

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers are repairing bad roads in enemy territory.
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View of the "Cannon Hospital"

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Description: At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. A view of the yard.
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Downed Telephone Lines

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Description: Destroyed telephone lines in Serbia being repaired for use.
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Army Truck Radiator Repair

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Description: Repairing an army truck radiator, Montenegro and Albania.
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View of the "Cannon Hospital"

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Description: At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. A view of the yard.
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Cleaning the Firing Tube at the "Cannon Hospital"

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Description: At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. The firing tube is being cleaned.
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Repairing Telephone Wires

Date: 1915
Description: Repairing telephone wires in the Uzsok Pass, Galicia, which had been destroyed by the Russians.
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"Tractorettes" Working on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Three women work under a Farmall H tractor. International Harvester's "Tractorette" program was intended to teach women to operate and maintain tractors wh...
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Repairing Cannons at the "Cannon Hospital"

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Description: At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. Even the best constructed artillery pieces must be refurbished from time to time. That is why the introduc...
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Work at the "Cannon Hospital"

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Description: At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. Even the best constructed artillery pieces must be refurbished from time to time. That is why the introduc...
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Nieuport Waiting for Repairs

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Damaged airplanes sitting on wooden planks. Captioned: "A Nieuport 'sent up' for repairs."

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