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New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Trucks that will carry leathernecks in combat areas are used in war exercises at New River, North Carolina. This truck, rolling along in a Marine convoy, serves many useful war purposes. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

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New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Trucks that will carry leathernecks in combat areas are used in war exercises at New River, North Carolina. This truck, rolling along in a Marine convoy, serves many useful war purposes. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine Corps transport workers study the assembly of one of the many weapons the leathernecks use in war exercises at New River, North Carolina. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine Corps transport workers study the assembly of one of the many weapons the leathernecks use in war exercises at New River, North Carolina. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine Corps transport workers study the assembly of one of the many weapons the leathernecks use in war exercises at New River, North Carolina. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine Corps transport workers study the assembly of one of the many weapons the leathernecks use in war exercises at New River, North Carolina. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport unit. America boasts the world's best military truck drivers. This capable member of a Marine motor transport unit at New River, North Carolina is an expert at tooling a truck through the worst kind of going. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport unit. America boasts the world's best military truck drivers. This capable member of a Marine motor transport unit at New River, North Carolina is an expert at tooling a truck through the worst kind of going. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport unit. America boasts the world's best military truck drivers. This capable member of a Marine motor transport unit at New River, North Carolina is an expert at tooling a truck through the worst kind of going. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck convoy. The leathernecks are good at this. A member of a Marine Corps truck convoy, in training at New River, North Carolina, operates the elevation lever of an anti-aircraft gun

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Trucks that will carry leathernecks in combat areas are used in war exercises at New River, North Carolina. This truck, rolling along in a Marine convoy, serves many useful war purposes. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

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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 31, frame 1272.

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label_outline Explore Marine Truck Transport Units, Lot 1970, Onslow County

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Inside the log cofferdam of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Trucks call for milk every morning on Indiana farms. Near Battle Ground, Indiana

Trucks, 39th St. Ferry - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Nuttallburg Mine Complex, Headhouse, North side of New River, 2.7 miles upstream from Fayette Landing, Lookout, Fayette County, WV

A coat of paint makes anything look better. But the purpose of spraying the undercarriages of the Army's halftrac scout cars is for protection. The job is part of the production routine on a large order being filled by a Midwest truck manufacturer. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Traveling crane lifting the cab of a U.S. Army truck and carrying it to an assembly point in India

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