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Indian troops in East Africa. This seems simple enough, but it is only the beginning. Here are India's civil pioneers in the making--men who will be called upon to build roads, work in factories, construct or demolish buildings or do other duties that government may consider necessary for public saftey

Indian troops in East Africa. Here are some ... of Indian soldiers, restored to health at the depot, lined up prior to their discharge

Indian troops in East Africa. These photos show scenes in Indian shipyards busy turning out trawlers and other Naval craft. The floor is being fitted in one of the many new trawlers which are being built for India's defence. The Serang is directing lifting operation

Indian troops in East Africa. Indian sappers and miners serving in the Middle East keep in strict training. Here they are bridging a canal in the Nile River. The Egyptian and his camel make use of the suspension bridge, but the camel is not too certain

Indian troops in East Africa. The largest crowd Bombay city has seen for a long time turned out to see the spectacular finale of the city's "war week," a great route march by British and Indian naval and military units followed by armored vehicles and ambulances. Sir Roger Lumley, Governor of Bombay, took the salute from a saluting base by the fine Marine Drive. With him was General Sir Claude Auchinlock, Commander-in-Chief in India. How a tank goes over the top was graphically illustrated during the "war week" when the Rodney negotiated this wall with the greatest of ease

A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Information Photograph

Indian troops in East Africa. These photos show the large-scale production of Indian iron and steel by the well-known Indian firm of Tatas at work in the sheet mill. Like Tuaregs, the veiled men of the Sahara, they muffle their faces as much as they can and for the same reason the Tuaregs did, to shield their faces from the fierce heat of the desert sand blazing in the sunshine and the men of the sheet mill to protect themselves from the savage heat given off by the sheets of red hot metal which litter the floor of the mill

Indian troops in East Africa. Operating a gun

Indian troops in East Africa. Indian soldiers learning the use of armored equipment

Indian troops in East Africa. This seems simple enough, but it is only the beginning. Here are India's civil pioneers in the making--men who will be called upon to build roads, work in factories, construct or demolish buildings or do other duties that government may consider necessary for public saftey

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 761.

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01/01/1941
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A black and white photo of two women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Victory food from American waters. Tomorrow's fishermen--young Gloucester boys push wagons of rosefish from the unloading pier to the processing plant where the fish are filleted and frozen. Many of the boys will follow their forefathers and fishermen in New England waters

Band and clowns at Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

A black and white photo of a group of women holding signs. Office of War Information Photograph

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Young and old, everybody is Victory Gardening this spring, and there'll soon be hardly a backyard that's not under cultivation. Prior to planting, this gardener is raking the soil to pulverize and prepare it for seed

Reciprocal aid. Two sergeants from Texas, Sergeant A. Baker and Technical Sergeant Roy Hill, carry a string of British bullets over their shoulders to a British Spitfire. American and British air forces work side by side in the European theatre, with British furnishing important supplies and equipment under the Reciprocal Aid Program

A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Information Photograph

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