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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Experienced and skilled workers in the Dodge truck plant gun-welding the "strainers" or reinforcements to the top and back panels of Army trucks, to give the full measure of strength and rigidity required in strenuous Army service

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Experienced and skilled workers in the Dodge truck plant gun-welding the "strainers" or reinforcements to the top and back panels of Army trucks, to give the full measure of strength and rigidity required in strenuous Army service

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01/01/1940

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Detroit (Mich.), 42.33139, -83.04583

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Library of Congress

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