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Antiaircraft gun carriage. One of the many machine operations on a partially assembled carriage for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun. This is a typical scene as heavy industry gets into gear in America's war program. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. One of the many machine operations on a partially assembled carriage for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun. This is a typical scene as heavy industry gets into gear in America's war program. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
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 30, frame 1155.

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01/01/1941
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