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Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. Camouflaged troops repel attack on half track carrying an x-ray portable field unit in a simulated battle test. The unit is set up in battlefront areas in a specially constructed dark-room tent

Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. Camouflaged troops repel attack ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lend-lease shipments from the United States. This bow section of an American landing barge will be lifted aboard a waiting freighter for shipment to a United Nations battlefront

Lend-lease shipments from the United States. This bow section of an Am...

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Thru special arrangement with the Italian government [...] the Italian battlefront

Thru special arrangement with the Italian government [...] the Italian...

Motion picture poster, text only, advertising film coverage of World War I in Italy. Printed paste-on: Isis Theatre entire week starting Monday July 15.

M-4 tanks. M-4's are thoroughly tested before being shipped to the battlefront. The tank shown here, at the Aberdeen, Maryland, proving grounds carries both cannon and machine gun in the revolving turret. This is the welded hull construction

M-4 tanks. M-4's are thoroughly tested before being shipped to the bat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armored military vehicle, tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A poster comes to life. "I know now where we get the stuff for battleships and guns--and even radio parts. And with men like you producing this stuff we need and backing us up, we can't lose this war." Chief Evans speaks to the steelworkers on his visit to an Allegheny-Ludlum mill. Touring the plant, Evans got his initiation into a new battlefront where weapons for the Army and Navy are forged. Welder Woolslayer (standing left) and Sergeant Vineyard stand by after the assistant plant superintendent (seated) introduced Evans to the audience. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. "I know now where we get the stuff for battles...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. As rapidly as they are assembled, American P-40 fighter planes line up at an African airport, are fueled and given final adjustments prior to taking off for the battlefront

American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. As rapidly as they are ass...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lowered into place on an M-4 tank. Machine guns have already been installed and the General Sherman will be ready for the test track. Designed by the Army Ordnance Department and built under ordnance supervision, the M-4 embodies new advances in design based on battlefront experience. Cast steel construction of the hull expedites production

Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lower...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tank, military activity, armed forces world wat two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American troops boarding a transport which will take them from New Caledonia to the Solomon Islands battlefront

American troops boarding a transport which will take them from New Cal...

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Cyrenaica reconquered: Later pictures from the battlefront The Axis highway ("Strada Dell'Asse") rechristened "Democracy Lane" - members of a British tank crew affixing the new name over the original Italo-German notice-board somewhere in Cyrenaica. The crew had been in the thick of the fighting.

Cyrenaica reconquered: Later pictures from the battlefront The Axis hi...

British official photograph from OWI. No. BM-7988. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

A poster comes to life. Two soldiers learn about each other's contribution to the war effort in the shadow of one of the nation's roaring steel furnaces. Sergeant French Vinyard tells this Allegheny-Ludlum electrician about life in the Army and learns in turn what it takes to turn out the weapons of victory on the industrial battlefront. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

A poster comes to life. Two soldiers learn about each other's contribu...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Aircraft engines. Typifying American democracy at work, four soldiers of the production front assemble an airplane engine for Uncle Sam's soldiers of the battlefront. In this, as in other war factories throughout the U.S., prejudice pertaining to differences of race, creed or color have been scrapped by those who recognize that victory must have priority over intolerance. These four men are assembling cylinder barrels to an engine in a giant Midwest aviation plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Typifying American democracy at work, fo...

Public domain photograph of aircraft engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description