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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Launching a fifty-foot steel ramp boat, just completed at a Southern boatyard. Boats of this kind, powered by twin diesel engines, are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. After a trial run this boat will be removed from the water and prepared for railroad shipment

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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Launching a fifty-foot steel ramp boat, just completed at a Southern boatyard. Boats of this kind, powered by twin diesel engines, are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. After a trial run this boat will be removed from the water and prepared for railroad shipment

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Summary

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 41, frame 233.

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Date

01/01/1942
place

Location

united states
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Source

Library of Congress
copyright

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Public Domain

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