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Building a new army camp at top speed. Now camps are being built with great rapidity all over the country to house not only Britain's rapidly expanding Army, but the many thousands of American and Canadian troops now arriving. The work is done by civilian contractors, but the army garrison engineer is in constant supervision to see that the work is as specified and that it is completed on time. Bricking the ends of a Nissen Hut. In the foreground men are mixing mortar for bricking

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Building a new army camp at top speed. Now camps are being built with great rapidity all over the country to house not only Britain's rapidly expanding Army, but the many thousands of American and Canadian troops now arriving. The work is done by civilian contractors, but the army garrison engineer is in constant supervision to see that the work is as specified and that it is completed on time. Bricking the ends of a Nissen Hut. In the foreground men are mixing mortar for bricking

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Image source: British official photo from OWI; BH 16493.
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 41, frame 603.

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01/01/1940
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great britain
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