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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Mounting the power plant of a fifty-foot steel ramp boat in a Southern boatyard. This ramp boat, which will be used in landing men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores, is powered by twin diesel engines. At this same boat yard are made torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Mounting the power plant of a fifty-foot steel ramp boat in a Southern boatyard. This ramp boat, which will be used in landing men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores, is powered by twin diesel engines. At this same boat yard are made torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

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Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1942

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Hollem, Howard R., photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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38.88868, -77.00472

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Library of Congress

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