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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by mel...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The fine machinery and skilled operators of a commercial watch case factory are now producing precision radio parts for the armed forces. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Victory food from American waters. Muscles strain as husky fisherman of Portuguese descent pull nets on board the Old Glory. Their haul is rosefish, a species now used in large quantities by the armed forces

Victory food from American waters. Muscles strain as husky fisherman o...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A dial feed press crimps 20mm fuses in a large plant which quickly changed over to the production of essential supplies for our armed forces. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

A dial feed press crimps 20mm fuses in a large plant which quickly cha...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

WAAFS -- England's women auxiliaries are assigned to assist United States task forces over there. Here they are shown preparing dinner for American troops at a mess hall somewhere in England. Private First Class Rocco Pagliano of Providence, Rhode Island, lending a hand

WAAFS -- England's women auxiliaries are assigned to assist United Sta...

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

Tripoli, Libya. Daylight raid by Allied air forces on the Castel Benito airdrome, resulting in great damage to machine shops shown at the scene of the airdrome and other installations

Tripoli, Libya. Daylight raid by Allied air forces on the Castel Benit...

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

Gloucester, Massachusettes. Mrs. Mary Machado, ninety-seven-year-old grandmother of eleven men in the armed forces

Gloucester, Massachusettes. Mrs. Mary Machado, ninety-seven-year-old g...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sousse, Tunisia. A building which received a direct hit in a raid over the town by bombers of the Northwest African Strategic Air forces before the Germans and Italians retreated. The enemy had placed tank obstructions in the street

Sousse, Tunisia. A building which received a direct hit in a raid over...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A 7,000 ton Japanese merchant vessel after a direct hit by India Air Task forces near Rangoon, India. A bomb is dropping in the lower right part of the picture and small boats are trying to carry the crew members away from the sinking vessel. The waters are covered with oil slick

A 7,000 ton Japanese merchant vessel after a direct hit by India Air T...

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

New York, New York. Mrs. Rose Carrendeno, Italian-American mother of six. Three sons are in the armed forces

New York, New York. Mrs. Rose Carrendeno, Italian-American mother of s...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reciprocal aid. Wearing British flying kits, Lieutenant E.D. Schofield of Belleville, Ohio and Lieutenant R.F. Sargent, of Youngstown, Ohio, prepare to pilot a British Spitfire. Under the Reciprocal Aid Program, Britain is furnishing American air forces important equipment and supplies

Reciprocal aid. Wearing British flying kits, Lieutenant E.D. Schofield...

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

Reciprocal aid. Evidence of British-American cooperation is shown in this picture of U.S. personnel servicing a British Vauxhall and British Humber van, equipment provided American forces under British Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. Evidence of British-American cooperation is shown in t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Australia in the war. Months of training under field conditions contribute to the building up of Australia's armored forces. The American tank shown here is part of the fighting equipment furnished United Nations under lend-lease

Australia in the war. Months of training under field conditions contri...

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

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geology expert of one of the large oil companies U.S. displays two varieties of sand from an oil drilling district. The hand on the left holds dry, oil-less sand, while the one on the right holds sand rich and dark with oil. The latter oil-soaked sand, called "Simpson sand," is the goal of all seekers of oil and finding the sand in a test-boring indicates that is a well is sunk at that place the chances of "striking" oil are good. No longer do oilwell drillers in the U.S. rely on "hit or miss" methods of drilling for oil. Geologists make careful surveys of the surface of the ground to detect those geological characteristics which indicate the presence of oil deposits beneath. The industry's high efficiency has resulted in the production of enormous quantities of oil, a great part of which today propels and lubricates the planes, navies, and mechanized equipment of the United Nations' armed forces

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Public domain photograph related to US navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Installation of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) exhibit of original drawings and paintings by artists now in the armed forces. Preview, before shipping to Australia, held at the office of the Overseas Picture Division in the Auditor's Building

Installation of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) exhi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Sam Houston Oak in Gonzales, Texas, where, in 1836, Sam Houston and several citizen-soldiers temporarily fleeing the superior Mexican forces after the fall of the Alamo in San Antonio, spent a miserable night

The Sam Houston Oak in Gonzales, Texas, where, in 1836, Sam Houston an...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Count de Rochambeau - French general of the land forces in America reviewing the French troops, British Cartoon Print

Count de Rochambeau - French general of the land forces in America rev...

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5706 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The Ame... More

Surrender of the Spanish Forces to General Shafter

Surrender of the Spanish Forces to General Shafter

Drawing shows the surrender of the Spanish forces under General Toral, on the right, to General William R. Shafter and the American forces, at center and on the left; General Toral moves to present his sword to... More

Cantonment of His Majesty's forces in N. America according to the disposition now made & to be compleated as soon as practicable taken from the general distribution dated at New York 29th. March 1766.

Cantonment of His Majesty's forces in N. America according to the disp...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes penciled note and listing of the composition of "Detachments." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 118 Available also through the Library... More

Thayer, Honorable John Milton of Wyoming & Nebraska. Brig Gen & major of the Territorial forces operating against the Pawnee Indians in 1855-61. Colonel of 1st Nebraska Infantry. July 21, 1861

Thayer, Honorable John Milton of Wyoming & Nebraska. Brig Gen & major ...

A man sitting in a chair with a cane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The allied forces in camp at the port of Tang Ku, China

The allied forces in camp at the port of Tang Ku, China

Bird's-eye view of soldiers with horses and ship in background.

Lord Kitchner's trumpeter in 1915, Pvt. Frank Inman of Australian Imp. [i.e., Imperial] Forces. Mr. Frank Inman photographed on April 27 '40

Lord Kitchner's trumpeter in 1915, Pvt. Frank Inman of Australian Imp....

Public domain image of a military portrait, uniform, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The offensive was taken by the British forces: ships of our mighty Navy

The offensive was taken by the British forces: ships of our mighty Nav...

British ships. Right half (p. 729). Repro. of 8 photoprints by Cribb, Gale and Bolden, Cozens, and Alfieri. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1916 June 10, pages 728 and 729. Reference copy may be in SSF ... More

German position of resistance in the Argonne Forest, artillery & machine gun nests, captured by the American Forces, 1918

German position of resistance in the Argonne Forest, artillery & machi...

Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 181. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

FIRST DIVISION, A.E.F. AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS OF PARADE

FIRST DIVISION, A.E.F. AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. MISCELLANEOUS VI...

A group of people riding horses down a street. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

FIRST DIVISION, A.E.F. AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS OF PARADE

FIRST DIVISION, A.E.F. AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. MISCELLANEOUS VI...

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George E. Adamson, 1st. Lt. Quartermaster Corps, receiving Distinguished Service Cross from General Pershing for his work as Confidential Secy. to Commander-in-Chief of the Amer. Expeditionary Forces and later to the General of the Armies

George E. Adamson, 1st. Lt. Quartermaster Corps, receiving Distinguish...

A group of men standing around each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eleventh Huzars arriving at Ludd. Eleventh Huzars detraining at the Lydda junction on their arrival from Egypt. Lt. General R.H. Haining, Commander in Chief, British Forces in Palestine & Transjor[dan]

Eleventh Huzars arriving at Ludd. Eleventh Huzars detraining at the Ly...

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

American Legion Head testifies before Un-American committee. Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. "Sinister forces are expending greater effort than ever before to wreck this nation" Homer L. Chaillaux, Americanism director of the American Legion told the Dies Un-American Committee today, 8/18/38

American Legion Head testifies before Un-American committee. Washingto...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a small village, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a small village, New Jersey. Farm Security ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, Bernard Baruch, noted Financier, declared that the nation must choose between the "profits system and the hope of gain" and "the new European ideas of state regulation and fear of punishment". He added "that if it became clear tomorrow that Americans definitely chosen her traditional profits system, forces would be released that would rapidly hasten recovery and reemployment," 2/28/38

Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. App...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American lend-lease equipment is playing a vital part in the development of United Nations mechanized forces. Here, an American light tank, to be used for training Australia's armored crews, is unloaded at an Australian port

American lend-lease equipment is playing a vital part in the developme...

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

Arrival in Palestine of Mr. Antony [i.e., Anthony] Eden. Mr. Eden talking to A.I.F. [i.e., Australian Imperial Forces] troops

Arrival in Palestine of Mr. Antony [i.e., Anthony] Eden. Mr. Eden talk...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

French airmen hit a pinpoint target. Flying with the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces under the tri-color of France, the Frenchment split a vital rail bridge, 600 feet long and 15 feet wide, at the Piteccio viaduct in central Italy. On the wing of the American-made B-26 bomber may be seen the roundel of the French Air Force

French airmen hit a pinpoint target. Flying with the Mediterranean All...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Army officers attending the school conducted by the Chrysler Corporation to assist our fighting forces in the job training men to operate the thousands of trucks required by today's streamlined division are given actual practice in driving the trucks in a testing field. Above is an Army officer putting one of these trucks through its paces in a heavy mud wallow which is just one of the many tests to which the driver and vehicle are subjected

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Army officers attending the school con...

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

Fort Benning. Halftrac scout cars. America's mechanized army grows mightier every day. Soldiers of the armored forces trainig in halftrac scout cars at Fort Benning, Georgia are turning rapidly into hard, smart fighting men

Fort Benning. Halftrac scout cars. America's mechanized army grows mig...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Benning armored forces. An old type, light tank gives armored forces trainees at Fort Benning, Georgia their first experience with mechanized fighting equipment

Fort Benning armored forces. An old type, light tank gives armored for...

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

A poster comes to life. They're working together, these three Americans whose roles in the war effort are equally important and interdependent. Radio-aviation Chief John Marshall Evans, steelworker George Woolslayer and Sergeant French L. Vineyard watch the roaring steel furnaces in an Allegheny-Ludlum mill and realize that in truth they are "Men Working Together" for victory; soldier and sailor dependent on steelworker for the weapons of war, and worker dependent on the armed forces for the preservation of his life and liberty. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

A poster comes to life. They're working together, these three American...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scott Field, Illinois. Troops of the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, in full field equipment in a simulated gas attack, are not deterred by the cumbersome masks

Scott Field, Illinois. Troops of the Army Air Forces Technical Trainin...

Public domain photograph related to the United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch for the men of America's armed forces! Blonde, twenty-one-year-old Elne Nigholm brazes bolt latch releases for the Army's machine guns in a Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to production of war materials. Two thousand women now work in this plant, with more to be added as production increases. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Benning. Machine gunners, armored forces. Our armored forces have tremendous fire power. These machine gunners on a halftrac scout car make the .30 caliber Browning one of the most destructive of modern weapons

Fort Benning. Machine gunners, armored forces. Our armored forces have...

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

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured here, is included in the conversion of a jukebox manufacturing company to war production. Control instruments based on the jukebox selection device will be manufactured for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. So that America's paratroopers may write history in this new field of modern warfare, these women workers in the aircraft factory of an Eastern navy yard are turning miles of silk into parachutes for our armed forces

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. So that America's paratroopers may ...

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.

Tank forces. Fort Benning. A lot of headaches for the Axis are packed in this combination of good American soldiers and good American equipment. A medium (M-3) tank and a trainee of the armored forces completing the course at Fort Benning, Georgia

Tank forces. Fort Benning. A lot of headaches for the Axis are packed ...

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

Aluminum casting. One of the many operations essential to production of aluminum articles for the Army and Air Forces: lowering basket into quench tank from high temperature heat treating solution furnace. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. One of the many operations essential to production o...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the metal of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying on the olive drab camouflage of the United States Army Air Forces

On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the metal ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an airplane, aircraft, airport, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Lowering an engine to the chassis of a Dodge Army truck. Vehicles for the armed forces move in a steady stream along this busy production line

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aluminum casting. Before metal can be poured into the mold, this wooden superstructure will be completely filled with sand. Technically, it's known as facing sand on coperflask and placing of gaggers. But in anybody's language, it's one of the many operations necessary to complete molds in which vital aluminum parts for the armed forces will be cast. What the exact object being cast is, is one of the army's secrets. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Before metal can be poured into the mold, this woode...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Benning. Tank forces. What the Axis has to face. A medium tank (M-5) and a capable American crew make an effective fighting combination. The training course at Fort Benning, Georgia is graduating smart and proficient soldiers for the armored forces

Fort Benning. Tank forces. What the Axis has to face. A medium tank (M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of knight armor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Looks like a great big wedding ring surrounding this attractive young aluminum worker. Actually it's a sand casting which is to be used for the armed forces. The young lady is giving it a professional once-over for defects. Aluminum Industries

Looks like a great big wedding ring surrounding this attractive young ...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Major General Carl Spaatz, commanding general Air Forces, Etousa, of Earlville, Pennsylvania, and Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker of Lane County, Texas, as they awarded decorations to airmen in Britain

Major General Carl Spaatz, commanding general Air Forces, Etousa, of E...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Benning. Tank forces. What the Axis has to face. A medium tank (M-3) and a capable American crew make an effective fighting combination. The training course ar Fort Benning, Georgia is graduating smart and proficient soldiers for the armored forces

Fort Benning. Tank forces. What the Axis has to face. A medium tank (M...

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

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Crankshaft assembles for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines must undergo a rigid inspection in a large Eastern war plant now working full tilt to supply our armed forces with power installations for our war planes. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Crankshaft assembles f...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. The light tanks used at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for training and hardening crews for our armored forces, are graduating tough, competent "tankers" who will soon be giving the Axis some pointers on modern warfare

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. The light tanks used at Fort Knox, K...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This mechanic, an American of Chinese origin, belting on a hinge section of a steel ramp boat, is one of the many efficient workers at a large Southern boatyard. This man has relatives fighting in the Chinese army and it is possible that the ramp boats he helps make will carry soldiers of his race cooperating with American forces in recapturing Japanese-held territory. Higgins Industries

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This mechanic, an American of Chinese orig...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Aluminum casting. Ladling of molten aluminum alloy into the gate of a closed permanent mold. Site of these operations is a large Midwest aluminum foundry now converted to production of essentials for America's armed forces. The part being cast here may be destined for the engine of a "jeep" or part of an airplane engine. Their exact destination is kept a secret. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Ladling of molten aluminum alloy into the gate of a ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds ma...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a soldier, armed forces, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reciprocal aid. American and British air forces work together in defense of a British airfield. A member of the Royal Air Force handles the anti-aircraft gun in the foreground with American fighting forces shown in the rear. Many airfields and much British equipment have been provided for American air forces under the British Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. American and British air forces work together in defen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wreckage of a Focke-Wulf 200 downed in combat by American Air forces. Lieutenants Ingleido and Morrison, somewhere in Iceland

Wreckage of a Focke-Wulf 200 downed in combat by American Air forces. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The "flying jeep," known also as the "eye upstairs" of the Army ground forces. Technically named the Sentinel (L-3), it is capable of hovering at speeds under forty-five miles per hour while directing ground movements and operations

The "flying jeep," known also as the "eye upstairs" of the Army ground...

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

A train of bombs drops from United States Army Air Forces plane on territory in the Aleutians held by the Japanese. Our fighting forces harass the enemy at this important outpost daily

A train of bombs drops from United States Army Air Forces plane on ter...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Reciprocal aid. Preparing an airfield in Britain for the U.S. Army Air Forces. British labor and material is used in the construction of runways, offices, sleeping quarters and all essential services required for an airport. These facilities are supplied to the United States under the Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. Preparing an airfield in Britain for the U.S. Army Air...

Public domain photograph of excavation, bulldozer, land management, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Reciprocal aid. Pouring concrete for runways for an airfield in Britain for the U.S. Army Air Forces. British labor and material is used in the construction of runways, offices, sleeping quarters and all essential services required for an airport. These facilities are supplied to the United States under the Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. Pouring concrete for runways for an airfield in Britai...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reciprocal aid. Private Michael Fuller of New York City and Sergeant J.L. Schnider of Chicago unload British tables and fire extinguishers for use by the American air forces in Britain. American and British air forces work side by side in the European theatre, with Britain furnishing important supplies and equipment under the Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. Private Michael Fuller of New York City and Sergeant J...

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Railroad cars stand on a side track ready to receive cargoes of gasoline stored in large spherical tanks at the refinery of one of the principal U.S. oil companies. The cars will speed the gasoline across the American continent to seaports where it will be loaded onto tanker ships for conveyance overseas to the armed forces of the United Nations. Gasoline totals have reached new records since the U.S. entered the war. Besides the enormous amounts required to fuel the 180,000 planes American factories have turned out since December 7, 1941, large supplies of fuel are needed for naval vessels, merchant ships, tanks and mechanized units in the field. It takes 25,000 gallons of gasoline to move a single U.S. Army tank division 100 miles (160 kilometers)

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[A Russian officer sitting at a table is about to eat, but a Japanese soldier is taking the meal away, indicating a Japanese victory over Russian forces]

[A Russian officer sitting at a table is about to eat, but a Japanese ...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon ban... More

The Czar sees his forces returning

The Czar sees his forces returning

Print shows Nicholas II waking from a nightmare showing the battered and wounded Russian forces returning from battle with the Japanese. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Limy, through which the American forces passed in cutting off the St. Mihiel Salient, 1918

Limy, through which the American forces passed in cutting off the St. ...

Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 161. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

Robert [i.e., Esek] Hopkins, Esqr., commodore of the American sea forces

Robert [i.e., Esek] Hopkins, Esqr., commodore of the American sea forc...

Print shows Esek Hopkins, full-length portrait, wearing military uniform, holding sword at left side, two pistols in his belt. He is standing on shore, pointing to his left, with ships in the background. Illus... More

Map of battles on Bull Run near Manassas, 21st of July 1861 on the line of Fairfax & Prince William Co[unti]es in Virginia, fought between the forces of the Confederate States and of the United States of America /

Map of battles on Bull Run near Manassas, 21st of July 1861 on the lin...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Map illustrating the siege of Atlanta, Ga., by the U.S. forces under command of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, from the passage of Peach Tree Creek, July 19th 1864, to the commencement of the movement upon the enemy's lines of communication south of Atlanta, August 26, 1864 /

Map illustrating the siege of Atlanta, Ga., by the U.S. forces under c...

Partial cadastral map showing selected buildings and householders' names beyond city limits. Covers area extending from Mt. Gilead Church in west to Decatur in east and from Buckhead in north to East Point in s... More

Lord Kitchner's trumpeter in 1915, Pvt. Frank Inman of Australian Imp. [i.e., Imperial] Forces. Mr. Frank Inman photographed on April 27, '40

Lord Kitchner's trumpeter in 1915, Pvt. Frank Inman of Australian Imp....

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

FIRST DIVISION, A.E.F. AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS OF PARADE

FIRST DIVISION, A.E.F. AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. MISCELLANEOUS VI...

Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. 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

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman wo...

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

Y.M.C.A. Hostel in J'lem. [i.e., Jerusalem] for the men of H.M. Forces. Arrival of the G.O.C. Lt. General A.J. Giffard

Y.M.C.A. Hostel in J'lem. [i.e., Jerusalem] for the men of H.M. Forces...

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

Y.M.C.A. Hostel in J'lem. [i.e., Jerusalem] for the men of H.M. Forces

Y.M.C.A. Hostel in J'lem. [i.e., Jerusalem] for the men of H.M. Forces

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The men in our armed forces deserve the best food we can give them. Farmers will "keep 'em fed and keep 'em fighting!" Are you growing your share of food for fighting men?

The men in our armed forces deserve the best food we can give them. Fa...

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

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in Malaya have burnt thousands of bales of rubber, destroyed rubber factories and smashed machinery. Towering clouds of pungent smoke rise hundreds of feet in the air as a rubber factory is destroyed by the British forces.

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in...

Photograph shows black smoke from a fire set by British forces in Malaya.

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men whose hands are fashioning powerful new additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly expanding naval forces. A few miles away at the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, other thousands are also coming off their shifts. This scene is typical of dozens of shipyards throughout the nation. Shipyard workers have a lot to smile about, for invariably they have done their work so well and efficiently that production is ahead of schedule

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men who...

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Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Polish farmer's wife reading a letter from her son in the armed forces

Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Polish farmer's wife reading a lette...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Sergeant Frank Hoffman is on a busman's holiday from his job as cook at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, buying sausage to cook for his girl friend before he goes back to camp. Sergeant Hoffman is shopping in Anthony Weber's store in the German section of New York. Both Hoffman and Weber are glad to be in the liberty-loving United States instead of Germany, and each is doing his part to protect our democratic system of government from the Nazi forces which threaten to destroy it. Hoffman, of course, is in the Army; Weber is cooperating with other patriotic American storekeepers in the battle against inflation by displaying a price ceiling sign in German

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Sergeant Frank Hoffman is...

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Fort Benning. Tank forces. A medium tank (M-3) bristles with cannon, anti-aircraft guns, Tommy guns and pistols as soldiers of the armored forces in training ar Fort Benning, Georgia prepare for a sally

Fort Benning. Tank forces. A medium tank (M-3) bristles with cannon, a...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Fort Benning. Tank forces. A sergeant of the armored forces directs student soldiers from an old type, light tank used for training purposes at Fort Benning, Georgia. All trainees finish their courses in up to the minute equipment

Fort Benning. Tank forces. A sergeant of the armored forces directs st...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. They'll soon be adding to the power of our mighty American air forces. Rough forgings for the master piston rods of Pratt and Whitney motors are ready for the fine machining that will transform them into the precision-made engine parts that account largely for the excellences of American fighting aircraft. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. They'll soon be adding...

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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. A woman's place is on the production line in this Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to machine guns. Elsie M. Terry, one of 2,000 women employed here, is a skilled milling-machine operator who is making an important contribution to the war effort. She's making guns for America's armed forces. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. A woman's place is on ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. William Watson gauges and inspects barrel drilling holes on .45-caliber automatic pistols in the plant of a large manufacturer of firearms. Many men and women are employed here in producing pistols, machine guns and other essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. William Watson gauges and ins...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed forces are assembled in a factory once devoted to manufacture of safes and locks. These are breech ring mounts for the guns. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed...

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Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Soldier of the armored forces. After he has completed his training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he'll know a lot of new ways to put the heat on the Axis

Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Soldier of the armored forces....

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Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. The light tanks used at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for training and hardening crews for our armored forces, are graduating tough, competent "tankers" who will soon be giving the Axis some pointers on modern warfare

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. The light tanks used at Fort Knox, K...

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Fort Story coast defense. Men and guns to blow the face off the Axis. America's fighting forces require increased ammunition producton to achieve maximum stregnth

Fort Story coast defense. Men and guns to blow the face off the Axis. ...

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Dehydrated food luncheon at Senate. Chef Denissen hands out plates filled with dehydrated foods to be served in the dining room of the United State Senate. These new foods will contribute largely to feeding the fighting forces and refuges abroad

Dehydrated food luncheon at Senate. Chef Denissen hands out plates fil...

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Production. Electric power. Huge transformers feed power to thousands of machines and hand power tools at Vega Aircraft Plant. By reducing electrical current to the voltages proper for plant use, these transformers play an important part in the production of planes for our armed forces. Vega Aircraft Corporation

Production. Electric power. Huge transformers feed power to thousands ...

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Fort Story coast defense. Men and guns to blow the face off the Axis. America's fighting forces require increased ammunition production to achieve maximum strength

Fort Story coast defense. Men and guns to blow the face off the Axis. ...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by mel...

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Manpower. Young farm workers. With the nation's manpower rapidly being recruited into the armed forces, youngsters like this future farmer of Ohio will take an increasingly important part in America's agricultural activities

Manpower. Young farm workers. With the nation's manpower rapidly being...

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Manpower. Americans all. Men of the melting pot work to maintain the freedom that drew them to America. Born in Sweden, Gunnar Svenson operates a layout cupola in a large Midwest factory, helping to build medium tanks for America's fighting forces. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Men of the melting pot work to maintain the f...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinders are installed on power section assemblies of a new Pratt and Whitney airplane engine produced in a large Eastern plant now engaged exclusively in supplying the planes of our air forces with excellent American power installations. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinders are installe...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Housewives in war work "for the duration." Employed by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, these women workers are shown banding bottles used by the armed forces for blood transfusions, plasma, and serum. Evelyn Kohl (left) and Olive Western (right) each have two children; Gladys Eldert (right foreground) has a husband and brother in the Army

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Housewives in war work "for the...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Magneto driving gears for Pratt and Whitney airplane motors are tested for hardness on a Rockwell machine in a large Eastern plant producing engines in great numbers for our armed forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Magneto driving gears ...

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Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Agnes Mahan, bench lathe operator at a large Eastern firearms plant, makes oil drills for .50- caliber machine gun barrels. Many women workers are employed in this plant, producing essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Agnes Mahan, bench lathe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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