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Chaplain George W. Williams, addressing students at a Negro elementary school in Indianapolis. Chaplain Williams comes from Sumter, South Carolina, where his father is a minister. U.S. Army chaplain school, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Chaplain George W. Williams, addressing students at a Negro elementary...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Sign on a cleaning shop in Little Tokyo

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Wes...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. With quick, nimble fingers, many women are doing their share to make sure that swift, powerful Dodge Army trucks keep coming off the production lines

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Aluminum casting. Hundreds of delicate operations are required before aluminum parts for Uncle Sam's Army and Air Corps can be acquired. Here excess aluminum alloy is poured into a holding pot. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Hundreds of delicate operations are required before ...

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A poster comes to life. "Never got so close to one of these babies before" says George Woolslayer (right) giving an army jeep the once-over. At the post where Sergeant French L. Vineyard (center) is stationed, Woolslayer learned a great many things about army operations. Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (left) got a few pointers himself during this tour of the camp which was arranged after the servicemen had visited Woolslayer's steel mill. The three colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster found that they actually must "work together" for the successful waging of the war. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. "Never got so close to one of these babies bef...

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Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large walnut slab, known as a flitch, is marked for the cutting out of sound planes for gunstocks. Light chalk marks indicate defects. Black marks are the outlines to which selected sections for "rifle furniture" will be cut. Because of knots, swirls, twisted grain and other faults, only a small percentage of the flitch can be used. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large wal...

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Setting up exercises at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Setting up exercises at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin H...

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Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big automobile plant is entirely changed over to volume production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as...

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Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for combat planes and boats. A huge hydraulic press operating at high temperature and a pressure of 250 pounds per square inch attaches glue-surfaced veneer sheets to lumber-core panels to make high-grade plywood for Army and Navy uses. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for ...

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Removing the timbers which support an Army barge, just before launching her

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Removing the timbers w...

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese leave for Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Wes...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Large shipments of pipe fittings for Army purposes are shipped regularly from a big Midwest plant. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Large shipments of pipe fittings for Army p...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. Another Douglas A-20 attack bomber leaves the assembly line at the Long Beach, California, plant for transfer to the flight line and test flight before delivery to the Army. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Another Douglas A-20 attack bomber le...

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Production. Marine boilers. A flange is turned on a large cone that is part of heat transfer equipment being made for the Army in a big Midwest plant

Production. Marine boilers. A flange is turned on a large cone that is...

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Negro schoolchildren of the Military Officers' Training Corps marching in formation for Chaplain George W. Williams, a graduate of the U.S. Army chaplain school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. The MOTC was organized at the school by the teachers for those youngsters who wanted some preparation for future military service

Negro schoolchildren of the Military Officers' Training Corps marching...

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Spirited Army recruits after enlisting at the customhouse

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Spirited Army recruits after enlisting at ...

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WAACs. In order to save themselves, as well as others who face the peril of shipwreck at sea, members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps undergo an intensive training course at Daytona Beach, Florida. They learn to become proficient swimmers, but more than that, to rescue less fortunate ones and to employ emergency methods when they lack or lose life boats. These WAACS swim across the pool, using their inflated barracks bags as giant water wings

WAACs. In order to save themselves, as well as others who face the per...

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Swedish-American selectee in Minnesota being fingerprinted as he is inducted into the U.S. Army

Swedish-American selectee in Minnesota being fingerprinted as he is in...

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Portrait of a U.S. Army paratrooper

Portrait of a U.S. Army paratrooper

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Fort Myer, Virginia. A sergeant at Fort Myer, Virginia demonstrates a "walkie-talkie" in the field. This is the latest and most compact two-way radio in use by the Army. The unit is complete, containing batteries, mechanism, and aerial which telescopes into the case when not in use for this instrument

Fort Myer, Virginia. A sergeant at Fort Myer, Virginia demonstrates a ...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. A steady stream of bodies for Dodge Army trucks receive important finishing operations along this section of the production line

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Their brawn and their skill serve democracy in the forge plant of an automobile factory now working full capacity on production of shells for the Army. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Their brawn and their skill serve democracy in the forge plant of an a...

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American all. Russian-American Leatherneck. A captain in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I, Corporal Alexis A. Stoopenkoff of New York City is now "Proud to bear the title of a U.S. Marine." During the last war he served in many campaigns and was decorated several times. After coming to the United States he became active in the National Guard. When World War II broke out, he joined the Marines as a buck private and rose to corporal

American all. Russian-American Leatherneck. A captain in the Russian I...

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Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machines manufactured since January 1, 1935 were commandeered; no portables were wanted. A telephonic dictation room is being set up whereby busy executives can pick up the telephone, dictate their mail to a centrally located room which insures prompt typing of their letters, and at the same time more correspondence can be handled with lesser number of typewriters

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Mon...

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Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. Lieutenant Benton riding onto the field in a jeep

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Spot-welding adds strength and rigidity to the bodies of Dodge Army trucks

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Two-in-one operation. Boring and tapering the ring for a setter fuze in a large Army arsenal

Two-in-one operation. Boring and tapering the ring for a setter fuze i...

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Washington, D.C. Colonel A.I. Ennis, chief of United States Army Air Corps Office of Public Relations at his desk in the munitions building

Washington, D.C. Colonel A.I. Ennis, chief of United States Army Air C...

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B-24 Liberator bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. The C-87 Liberator Express is equipped with twenty portable chairs that are set up when the plane is used to carry human cargo. When Army officials saw the need for transport planes early in the war, plans for the Liberator Express were drawn to utilize the B-24 Liberator bomber so that no time was lost in the production changeover

B-24 Liberator bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. The C-87 Liberator E...

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America's huge production machine is really rolling now. A plant that was producing a popular car a short time ago is now operating even more efficiently on the manufacture of shells for the Army. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

America's huge production machine is really rolling now. A plant that ...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, ...

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. "Spanking," or forming  the edge of a steel army helmet. This operation, performed on a medium-sized press in a converted auto radiator plant, is part of the process of making helmets from flat sheets of steel. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. "Spanking," or forming th...

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Portrait of a U.S. Army paratrooper

Portrait of a U.S. Army paratrooper

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Production. Pipe fittings. A giant press used in a Midwest plant now forging 75 mm shells for the Army. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. A giant press used in a Midwest plant now f...

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Fort Knox. Colt automatic pistol. A soldier in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, demonstrates the use of one of America's renowned weapons, a Colt pistol. Much changed in appearance from the gun that was famous on our frontiers nearly a century ago, this .45 caliber automatic is one of the standard weapons of our modern Army

Fort Knox. Colt automatic pistol. A soldier in training at Fort Knox, ...

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Swedish-American selectee in Minnesota being inducted into the U.S. Army

Swedish-American selectee in Minnesota being inducted into the U.S. Ar...

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Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. James Mallory in his Ozark farmhouse. His land has been bought by the Army for construction of Camp Crowder, and next week, with the aid of the FSA (Farm Security Administration), he is moving to 160 acres of land and an entirely new type of farming

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. James Mallory in his Ozark...

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North American P-51 fighters await flight tests on the flight ramp. The P-51 is the Army Air Force's newest fighter

North American P-51 fighters await flight tests on the flight ramp. Th...

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"Here's where your parachute came from," Deena Clark, civilian defense volunteer tells Technical Sergeant Leo Matkins of the Army Air Corps. The worn out nylon stockings in this barrel full of salvaged stockings will be reprocessed and made into parachutes for army fliers, tow ropes for glider planes and other war material. The worn out silk stockings return to service as powder bags for the Army's big guns. The collection is typical of the thousands of salvage stations in retail stores throughout the country, which have collected 626,127 pounds of old silk and nylon stockings in three months. The campaign is directed by local salvage committees

"Here's where your parachute came from," Deena Clark, civilian defense...

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Waiting with their baggage for trains which will take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAAC motor convoy group takes refresher course before taking up instruction duties. In double file the trucks roll along the hard packed sands of Daytona Beach, Florida

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAAC motor convoy group takes refresher ...

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Early morning departure for the Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Wes...

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A Red Cross hospital recreation worker in an Army hospital in Great Britain, assisting a soldier whose right arm is in a cast , in writing to his relatives back home

A Red Cross hospital recreation worker in an Army hospital in Great Br...

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Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Mechanics at Fort Knox, Kentucky, check jeeps and other motor vehicles thoroughly and at regular intervals. Attention that was once given to the Army mule of days gone by now falls to the tough little "blitz buggy" or our modern mechanized forces

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Mechanics at Fort Knox...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant. The fittings are made by bending straight pipe, cutting off desired lengths from the curved sections and beveling edges for butt welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equip...

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The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order Japanese waiting for registration at the Santa Anita reception center.

The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. ...

Photograph shows Japanese Americans in lines next to horse stalls as armed guards observe. Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-72325-D. Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information... More

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Army and U.S. Treasury flags fly alongside the stars and stripes at a Pennsylvania anthracite mine. Coal miners and servicemen joined in the rallies, September 30th through October 1st, in the anthracite region to learn what each is doing to help win the war

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Army and U.S. Treasury flags...

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A black and white photo of a long line of trucks. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a long line of trucks. Office of War Inform...

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 availabl... More

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. A Japanese farmer sorts out his belongings before he is evacuated. He will sell the things he can, take whatever is allowed with him and store the remainder

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans f...

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Washington, D.C. U.S. Army Corps major and a civilan lunching at the Occidental Hotel restaurant

Washington, D.C. U.S. Army Corps major and a civilan lunching at the O...

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese-American children waiting for a train to take them and their parents to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from...

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Stern of an Army barge

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Stern of an Army barge

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Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 41st Engineers on parade ground

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 41st Engineers on parade ground

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Beneath the branches of trees, Second Army soldiers, now participating un the Tennessee maneuvers, attending religious services

Beneath the branches of trees, Second Army soldiers, now participating...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fueling a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the airfield of Boeing's Seattle plant. Ships are delivered to the Army and the Navy after they have successfully undergone flight tests. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fueling a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) b...

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New York, New York. The Di Costanzo family, owners of a restaurant on Mulberry Street, hold their annual family dinner in the restaurant on New Year's Eve. There are few customers on that night. At left is a flag and a picture of their son who is in the United States Army

New York, New York. The Di Costanzo family, owners of a restaurant on ...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Row upon row of rugged tires wait to be lifted on to conveyors which deposit them at the right spot on the steadily moving Dodge Army truck production line

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese waiting for train

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Wes...

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A poster comes to life. "Up until my visit here I thought it was just the Army that was fighting this war." Speaking before the assembled steel workers at Allegheny-Ludlum, Sergeant Vineyard acknowledges the debt of the armed forces to the men "behind the men behind the guns." This meeting was arranged by the plant to welcome its guests and to give expression to the truth behind the "Men Working Together" poster

A poster comes to life. "Up until my visit here I thought it was just ...

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Production. Pipe fittings. A giant press used in a Midwest plant now forging 75 mm shells for the Army

Production. Pipe fittings. A giant press used in a Midwest plant now f...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Hundreds of office workers are needed in the production of Dodge Army trucks

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Pretty worker in a paint shop of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation is cutting wafer-thin bonded mats of glass fiber for use as retainer mats in storage batteries supplied under Army and Navy specifications for storage batteries in submarines, tanks, and rough-riding reconnaisance cars

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Pretty worker in ...

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A meal on the march. Machine hands in the tool and die room of a converted automobile plant take lunch periods right on the job. The slotting machine behind them perforates metal shapes used in the production of army "jeeps" and tanks. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

A meal on the march. Machine hands in the tool and die room of a conve...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Finishing department of large Midwest plant producing pipe fittings for the Army. Here fittings made by bending straight pipe pass through beveling and other machine operations that prepare them for later welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Finishing department of large Midwest plant...

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Captain C.R. Douglass, Assistant Army Air Forces Representative at North American Aviation, looks aloft before taking another P-51 fighter into the air for a routine test flight

Captain C.R. Douglass, Assistant Army Air Forces Representative at Nor...

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Catholic chaplains saying mass at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Catholic chaplains saying mass at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort ...

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Los Angeles, California. Japanese-American evacuation from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Soldiers supervising the loading of the baggage of Japanese-Americans en route to Owens Valley reception center

Los Angeles, California. Japanese-American evacuation from West Coast ...

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Preparing lessons for the next day's class in the recreation room of the U.S. Army chaplain school, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Left to right, Chaplains F.J. O'Brien, George Brennan, P.L. Cronin and P.M. Hickcox

Preparing lessons for the next day's class in the recreation room of t...

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Manpower, junior size. Notes from parents giving permission to their sons and daughters to join the Roanoke, Virginia junior army are received by teacher Doris Jordan. Now these newly appointed junior commandos are ready to collect scrap for victory

Manpower, junior size. Notes from parents giving permission to their s...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Dodge Army ambulances are here, lined up for delivery to the Army

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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A number of forging operations are required to produce a shell for the Army. Experienced auto plant workers do this work as efficiently as they did parts for the family car. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A number of forging operations are required to produce a shell for the...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport planes awaits the installation of wing at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport plane...

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Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - the attention of a dentist was part of the medical care afforded evacuees, licensed dentists amoung the evacuees performing this service / U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - the attention of a dentist was par...

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Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese register on arrival at the Santa Anita reception center

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanes...

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Tobruk, Libya. One hour after Tobruk fell, such scenes as this were common. Roofless buildings stand among scattered masonry and wreckage of motor vehicles in a corner of the bomb-torn town which had been one of the main supply ports for Rommel's army in North Africa

Tobruk, Libya. One hour after Tobruk fell, such scenes as this were co...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Lutz, butcher, who also writes both hymns and patriotic songs, some of which he has sent to Army camps. He collected five tons of scrap

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Lutz, butcher, who also writes both hym...

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Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Workmen on a United States Army LT boat at the Marietta Manufacturing Company

Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Workmen on a United States Army LT boat...

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Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Patient receiving treatment in new fever machine which keeps temperature at 107 degrees (108 degrees is fatal). Note ice in basin and fan to cool head

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Patient receiving t...

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Army doctor starting out on a night problem. Students are left alone in unknown spot with map, flashlight, and compass, and instructed to find their way to a certain place

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Army d...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for Russia moving past Iranian huts. A waterfall is in the background

Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Nurse Grace Koster, Springfield, Illinois, in typical nurses quarters

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Nurse Grace Koster,...

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Demonstration by the Army dental unit

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Demons...

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Army doctors taking an examination in Army administration during a five-week course

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Army d...

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San Augustine, Texas. I.V. Childers, grocer, with his clerk who has just turned eighteen and is going to be inducted into the Army

San Augustine, Texas. I.V. Childers, grocer, with his clerk who has ju...

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Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Scene in typical two-man officers' quarters. Left to right: Lieutenant Herbert Johnson, Cleveland, Ohio; Major Richard Wiser, Columbia, South Carolina

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Scene in typical tw...

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All nursing and no play might make Frances Bullock (right) a dull girl! To preclude such a possibility, Army nurses hold dances in the nurses' home

All nursing and no play might make Frances Bullock (right) a dull girl...

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Assembling parts

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company makin...

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San Augustine, Texas. Two eighteen year old boys waiting for their physical examination prior to induction into the Army

San Augustine, Texas. Two eighteen year old boys waiting for their phy...

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Chicago, Illinois. Loading airplane propeller into freight cars at the United States Army consolidating station

Chicago, Illinois. Loading airplane propeller into freight cars at the...

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Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York touring the North African battle front, saying mass for the men at the 57th Fighter Group of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force. This group, located "somewhere in Tunisia," knocked almost 100 Axis transports and fighters out of the skies in one engagement

Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York touring the North African b...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Laying the keel block for the United States Army LT boats at the Marietta Manufacturing Company

Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Laying the keel block for the United St...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Riveting an aft section assembly. Two women workers are teamed up on a riveting job on an aft section assembly which will go into the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, now in full production at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Riveting an aft section a...

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Captain Rollo C. "Pop" Lawrence of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force, who has just finished 300 combat hours in the Middle East and North Africa. He is shown in the Snow White, a B-24 bomber which he piloted across the Atlantic and the only plane he ever used in a bombing mission. Captain Lawrence was a Louisiana state patrolman before the war

Captain Rollo C. "Pop" Lawrence of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force, who ha...

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Captain Thomas J. Lynch, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, holder of the high combat score for the United States Army Air forces fighter squadron which brought down 72 Janpaese planes in combat over New Guinea in 1943

Captain Thomas J. Lynch, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, holder of the high ...

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Officer candidates who are learning to be medical administrative officers on a road march, carrying full packs

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Office...

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Assembling a chassis

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company makin...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Rivet inspection on a rear monocoque. Two women workers at Vultee's Nashville Division are pictured at their jobs of inspecting rivets in a row of tail cones to be installed in the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Rivet inspection on a rea...

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Somewhere in Iran. Jack Tchernawitz, a Russian-born United States Army Major of New York, New York, wearing his parka at a delivery point of American supplies to Russia. Major Tchernawitz is the Russian-speaking liason officer of the United States Army forces here

Somewhere in Iran. Jack Tchernawitz, a Russian-born United States Army...

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A company officer of the 442nd Combat Team makes corrections in the saluting technique of one of the rookies from Hawaii as the unit began training with remarkable speed after its arrival at Camp Shelby

A company officer of the 442nd Combat Team makes corrections in the sa...

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