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Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. A good job on the air cleaner of an army truck at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. A good job on the air cleaner of an army t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The great naval battle: the first sight of the enemy. The fleets in touch: British battle-cruisers encounterng the German high-seas fleet off Jutland

The great naval battle: the first sight of the enemy. The fleets in to...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Wheel job on an army truck at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping the army's transport fleets in service

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Wheel job on an army truck at Fort Knox, K...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. He helps to keep 'em rolling at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping the army's transport fleets in service

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. He helps to keep 'em rolling at Fort Knox,...

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

Departure of coal fleets from Pittsburg [sic], Pennsylvania

Departure of coal fleets from Pittsburg [sic], Pennsylvania

Illustration showing a steam coal barge on the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Inscribed on image: No. 25. U.S. Engineer Office, Pittsburg, Pa. Illus. in: Report of examination of Ohio river with a vie... More

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Transmission job on an army truck at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping the army's transport fleets in service

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Transmission job on an army truck at Fort ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. He plays an important part in keeping army tansport fleets rolling. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, handles many repair and adjustment jobs at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. He plays an important part in keeping army...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for the aid of Russia. From the left: Captain J. Priggee of Newark, New Jersey, the convoy leader, and Colonel Don Shingler, Commander United States Army truck fleets of Iran and Iraq. Colonel Shingler is wearing a government issue coat. Captain Priggee was a truck dispatcher in private life

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Gears to grind the Axis. Giant gears to guide America's fleets around the sees to victory. A workman, dwarfed by the towering wheels, directs the moving of a high speed gear blank to a hooking machine. The surge of the mightiest surf won't faze these titans, whose job it is to speed the day when the Axis will be blasted to the bottom of the ocean

Gears to grind the Axis. Giant gears to guide America's fleets around ...

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Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Even army trucks need occasional carburetor adjustment. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic at Fort Knox, Kentucky, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Even army trucks need occasional carbureto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coast Guard Auxiliary. Guardians of inland waters. A schooner of the Coast Guard, patrolling waters off Boston. Small craft made available to the government by members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary are being used to supplement the work of the regular fleets

Coast Guard Auxiliary. Guardians of inland waters. A schooner of the C...

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Our victorious fleets in Cuban waters

Our victorious fleets in Cuban waters

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Transmission job on an army truck at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping the army's transport fleets in service

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Transmission job on an army truck at Fort ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Our victorious fleets in Cuban waters

Our victorious fleets in Cuban waters

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A map of East and West Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana : with the islands of Cuba, Bahama, and the countries surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, with the tract of the Spanish galleons, and of our fleets thro' the Straits of Florida, from the best authorities /

A map of East and West Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana : with the isla...

Public domain document scan of map of Florida, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets, U.S. Navy in Panama Bay, Panama Canal, Jan. 21, 1921

Combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets, U.S. Navy in Panama Bay, Panama ...

Printed on image on lower right: "[Copyright] photo by M.C. Mayberry; Mayberry-Smith-Gerhardt; Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A.; no. 711." Navy ships labeled on image. Forms part of Josephus Daniels collection. Do... More

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Wheel job on an army truck at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping the army's transport fleets in service

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Wheel job on an army truck at Fort Knox, K...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. A good job on the air cleaner of an army truck at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. A good job on the air cleaner of an army t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Ventura bombers. Part of the makings of Ventura bombers that will soon be giving Tokyo, Berlin, and Rome some idea of the strength and efficiency of America's serial battle fleets. A section of the warehouse of a large Western aircraft plant in which various types of fighting and bombing planes are being built. Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California

Production. Ventura bombers. Part of the makings of Ventura bombers th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bombardment of Taku forts, by the Allied fleets /

Bombardment of Taku forts, by the Allied fleets /

"The scene opens by showing the battleships maneuvering for a position. They finally draw up in line of battle and commence firing on the shore batteries. Immense volumes of smoke arise from the fleet and from ... More

A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation

A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Ne...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Even army trucks need occasional carburetor adjustments. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic at Fort Knox, Kentucky, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Even army trucks need occasional carbureto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Building new fleets: working for victory in our dockyards

Building new fleets: working for victory in our dockyards

2 views at British naval ship-building yard(s): 1. Huge derricks in course of construction for warships; 2. Destroyers under sonstruction. Repro. of 2 photoprints. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1916 J... More

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. A good ignition job on an army truck. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic at Fort Knox, Kentucky, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. A good ignition job on an army truck. This...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Airships as Scouts for our War Fleets [New York Times, 11 September 1911]

Airships as Scouts for our War Fleets [New York Times, 11 September 19...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More