One year of reciprocal aid. Britain has spent more than $500,000,000 for facilities for our forces in the United Kingdom. Hangers like this have turned the English woodland into a front-line base for the American air forces, as iron and steel, timber and glass, and lumber from her hard-pressed forests are rushed to construction operations, which include airfields, barracks and homes
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Image source: Official British photo.
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 32, frame 933.
Tags
Date
01/01/1940
Location
united kingdom
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain