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Lend-Lease to Britain. Aerial bombs of 250 tons shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in a dump hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below the surface in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. Aerial bombs of 250 tons shipped from the Unite...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. In an ammunition dump in England, hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below surface, a shipment of 30-caliber tracer ammunition shipped from the United States as lend-lease is stacked by English workmen

Lend-Lease to Britain. In an ammunition dump in England, hewn from sol...

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke, and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available, it is converted into highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A large e...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory" pulls up a sizeable haul of fish. Almost all of this catch will be filleted and frozen for military and lend-lease shipment. Of the total packs in the United States, sixty percent of the salmon and eighty percent of the sardine and macherel are consumed by the armed forces here and abroad

Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory" pulls up a sizeable...

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Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Mrs. Komorosky in her living room. Stove is for heat in winter, Russian style!

Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Mrs. Komorosky in her living room. S...

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Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Paul Robeson backstage

Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Pau...

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The uniforms are different but the cause is the same. Officers of the United Nations attend a garden party of the United Nations Club at Dumbarton Oaks, Sunday, September 6, 1942. Left to right: Lieutenant Colonel Sutton, Australia; Major Barayev, Assistant Military Attache, Russian Embassy; Colonel O. Spaniel, Czecholslovakia; Major Stefan M. Dobrowolski, Assistant Military Attache, Polish Embassy; Major M. V. Mishovich, Assistant Military Attache, Yugoslavia; Captain Alfred Leondopoulos

The uniforms are different but the cause is the same. Officers of the ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Fitters are at work assembling an American light tank which has just arrived at an English ordnance depot from the United States as part of a lend-lease shipment

Lend-Lease to Britain. Fitters are at work assembling an American ligh...

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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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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. The tool-steel used in this machine for cutting and shaping armor plate is furnished under lend-lease. India cannot, at present, produce this high-carbon steel

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. The tool-steel us...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Royal Air Force ground crew attaches bombs to lend-lease Mohawk fighter. These planes carry six bombs in addition to their six machine-guns. Pilots call the Mohawk the "best answer to the Jap's air power"

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Royal Air Force g...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workmen cutting a parachute rigging line. This method was perfected by Leslie Irvin, America's world-famous parachute expert, who spent two months in this factory helping to work out efficient production methods. A great deal of the machinery in use here was supplied under lend-lease

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workmen cu...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Valuable mica is packed for shipment to the United States from India. Mica is essential in the manufacture of aircraft, some sixteen pounds being used in each bomber. It is furnished to the United States on a reverse lend-lease basis and enjoys top priority of transport

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Valuable mica is ...

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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. Cases of dried apples, part of a lend-lease shipment, move from a pier to a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with other vital necessities to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. Cases of dried apples, part of a...

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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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Chefs look on as meat loaf, first dehydrated, then rehydrated, is cut for luncheon held March 11, 1943, at Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., to commemorate second anniversary of lend-lease

Chefs look on as meat loaf, first dehydrated, then rehydrated, is cut ...

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Chefs indicate approval of Meat loaf which had first been dehydrated, then rehydrated, to be served March 11, 1943, at luncheon at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., in observance of second anniversary of lend-lease

Chefs indicate approval of Meat loaf which had first been dehydrated, ...

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British barrage ballons. Type of British barrage ballons were sent to this country under the lend-lease program. They are being used at Camp Tyson, Tennessee, for training purposes

British barrage ballons. Type of British barrage ballons were sent to ...

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A black and white photo of a group of men standing in front of a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men standing in front of a truck...

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

Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for the aid of Russia climbing a mountain road over the Iranian mountains

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

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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. Coils of copper wire, part of a lend-lease shipment, move from a pier to a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with other vital necessities to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. Coils of copper wire, part of a ...

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Houses for Britain. Model house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease, at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. Materials have been allotted to FEA by War Production Board for 30,000 of these pre-fabricated temporary emergency dwelling units, and the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency will undertake procurement of them

Houses for Britain. Model house of the type which it is planned to shi...

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Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the United States and foreign officials and representatives signing the declaration by United Nations and lend-lease agreements

Washington, D.C. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State for the Unite...

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Houses for Britain. Model of prefabricated house erected at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. of the type of temporary, emergency dwelling which it is planned to ship 30,000 to Great Britain under lend-lease. View of front of house with kitchen entrance facing camera and front entrance behind open screen. Bathroom and one of two bedrooms behind kitchen

Houses for Britain. Model of prefabricated house erected at Scott Circ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. An American light tank is unloaded at a central ordnance depot in England, part of a lend-lease shipment from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American light tank is unloaded at a central...

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Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delivered by a dealer to a large Philadelphia paper mill. There it will be chopped up and combined with water, then pressed into pasteboard packing so vitally needed for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods

Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delive...

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The Army uses "lend-lease" equipment now being used by British armoured forces, is a "white" scout car which has been converted into an ambulance for use with tanks. It has been proven to have a fine cross-country performance

The Army uses "lend-lease" equipment now being used by British armoure...

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Waste paper. Destined for destruction, this household rubbish heap contains waste paper so badly needed today for conversion into the paper packing in which defense and lend-lease goods are shipped. Paper is one of the materials with which Americans have been most profligate, only now they are beginning to conserve paper along with many other materials long thought of as merely refuse

Waste paper. Destined for destruction, this household rubbish heap con...

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Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Boaters on the Potomac River get choice seats

Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Boa...

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for shipment. Now undergoing conversion to production of machine gun parts for Uncle Sam's army, this plant has only a small percentage of its equipment still producing oil burners. Those still rolling off the assembly lines are sent primarily to U.S. Army agencies or shipped abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for s...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Russian knitting bag and glass candle sticks

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Russian knitting bag and glass candle st...

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Australia in the war. One member of each Australian tank crew remain continuously on guard during periods of inactivity. These are American tanks furnished under lend-lease

Australia in the war. One member of each Australian tank crew remain c...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Crew of Chinese workmen are shown working on an American lend-lease Cyclone motor. This motor goes into the Hudson bomber, which is also lend-lease

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Crew of Chinese w...

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High production rate of Australian interceptor aircraft is maintained by the steady inflow of lend-lease Whitney twin row engines. This fast climbing, hard hitting addition to the Allied air strength being made in an Australian factory and includes in its structure Australian steel, Canadian aluminum and American engines

High production rate of Australian interceptor aircraft is maintained ...

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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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American, Russian and English engineers in the cab of an engine. Each of them has done his part in hurrying supplies enroute to Russia along a railroad in Iran

American, Russian and English engineers in the cab of an engine. Each ...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Valuable mica is packed for shipment to the United States from India. Mica is essential in the manufacture of aircraft, some 16 pounds being used in each bomber. It is furnished to the United States on a reverse lend-lease basis and enjoys top priority of transport

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Valuable mica is ...

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Meat loaf which had been dehydrated and then rehydrated, for serving at luncheon held March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., on the second anniversary of lend-lease, is prepared in the hotel kitchen

Meat loaf which had been dehydrated and then rehydrated, for serving a...

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Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of hospital. Towering high above the city is Australia's newest and finest medical structure, built as a civic enterprise as the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Today, renamed the United States Army Fourth General Hospital, it is a healing place for American soldiers and sailors. A three million dollar lump sum of reciprocal lend-lease was handed over to the United States before it ever had a civilian occupant

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of ho...

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Lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and guests at luncheon marking second anniversary of lend-lease, held March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., look on as Representative Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, inspects an egg. Dehydrated food, later rehydrated, was served

Lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and guests at lunc...

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An American Sergeant railroader lighting the cigarette of two Russian railroad engineers as they stand before a German-made engine being used to haul supplies for a Russian railway. Sign on the engine shows that it was built at the Krupp works in Essen. Somewhere in Iran

An American Sergeant railroader lighting the cigarette of two Russian ...

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Somewhere on the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for the aid of Russia at a fueling point

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

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for Russia rounding a difficult turn on the snow-covered pass at the top of a mountain. Iranian workmen who keep the road open are standing aside to allow the trucks to move on

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

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for Russia. Snow covered trucks start pushing through the mountain passes of Iran

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

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for the aid of Russia climbing a mountain road over the Iranian mountains

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

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for the aid of Russia. Tightening the loads to the carriers before entering a dangerous, snowbound mountain pass

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

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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. Cases of dried whole eggs, part of a lend-lease shipment, move from a pier to a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with other vital necessities to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. Cases of dried whole eggs, part ...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for the aid of Russia making a risky climb over a mountain pass

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

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for Russia, moving by a disabled truck. This truck will be repaired by a crew of mechanics riding at the end of the convoy

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

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A black and white photo of airplanes in a hangar. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of airplanes in a hangar. Office of War Inform...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge al...

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A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck. Office of W...

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

Houses for Britain. Side view of model prefabricated house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. of the type of temporary, emergency family dwelling which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease to alleviate acute housing shortage due to bombings. Left, kitchen, bathroom, and three windows belonging to one of two bedrooms

Houses for Britain. Side view of model prefabricated house erected by ...

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Houses for Britain. Detail of cupboards in corner of kitchen in prefabricated, temporary, emergency house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. This house was erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. Note submerged electric water heater will supplied in England. Heater connects with space heater in living room

Houses for Britain. Detail of cupboards in corner of kitchen in prefab...

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Houses for Britain. Partially assembled pre-fabricated temporary emergency house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease, erected at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C.

Houses for Britain. Partially assembled pre-fabricated temporary emerg...

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Houses for Britain. Workmen putting front door into place in model of pre-fabricated temporary emergency house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease, at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C.

Houses for Britain. Workmen putting front door into place in model of ...

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Houses for Britain. Model house under construction at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C., of the type of prefabricated temporary emergency dwelling unit Unitee States plans to ship to Great Britian under lend-lease. Materials have been allotted by War Production Board, and the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency will undertake procurement fo these houses. Bids for the construction of these units were to be in by March 5, 1945

Houses for Britain. Model house under construction at Scott Circle, Wa...

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Reciprocal aid. New ten-story hospital "somewhere in Australia" which the government of Australia has provided under reciprocal lend-lease, without payment by the United States, for care of American troops recuperating from illness and wounds

Reciprocal aid. New ten-story hospital "somewhere in Australia" which ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. A shipment of 155 mm. howitzers just arrived from the United States under lend-lease is prepared for service at an ordnance depot in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. A shipment of 155 mm. howitzers just arrived fr...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel one hundred feet underground dug out of solid rock in western England. The staff here works twenty-four hours a day handling Lend-Lease materials arriving from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United S...

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Lagg-3 fighters of the Red air force going into action, 1942-43

Lagg-3 fighters of the Red air force going into action, 1942-43

Photograph shows Russian fighter planes flying in formation during World War II.

William J. Shannon, PhD, assistant professor in chemistry. He is in charge of food chemistry at Iowa State College. He is here working on dried whole eggs used in lend lease shipments. The dried eggs in the beaker are equal to one dozen whole eggs. Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa

William J. Shannon, PhD, assistant professor in chemistry. He is in ch...

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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carrying ships built under lend-lease at a large New England yard and launched along with two destroyers and one liberty ship at a record breaking mass launching on August 16, 1942

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carr...

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Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB) has launched a campaign to secure 600,000 used typewriters from business firms and private individuals. These machines are needed by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Board of Economic Warfare, Lend-Lease and other government departments and agencies. Don MacDonald, Washington, D.C. typewriter dealer, affixes a decalcomania on a machine turned in to the government by John Stockham, Washington, D.C. insurance man. This was one of the first typewriters thus enlisted in the war effort. The decalcomania reads: "Property of U.S. Government - severe penalties for unlawful use"

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB)...

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Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Madame Litvinoff, wife of the Russian Ambassador, backstage with Paul Robeson

Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Mad...

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphate fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro w...

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Australia in the war. American motorcycles, furnished under lend-lease, are used in this formation of Australian cyclists, part of the growing mechanized army which the Commonwealth is training

Australia in the war. American motorcycles, furnished under lend-lease...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workman marks bullet holes in a Hudson bomber at a lend-lease equipped repair shop "somewhere in India." Indian workman marks bullet holes made in Hudson bomber while on bombing raid in the Burma area

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workman ma...

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Russian-born Master Sergeant Nicholas Chekmorath of Tacoma, Washington, chief inspector at the United States truck assembly plant. He has been in the American Army seventeen years--sixteen of them in the tank corps. Sergeant Chekmorath deals with Russian truck inspectors somewhere in Iran

Russian-born Master Sergeant Nicholas Chekmorath of Tacoma, Washington...

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American troops waiting for the rain to stop so that they can get washed at chow time. These boys work at an assembly plant putting trucks together for Russia. Somewhere in Iran

American troops waiting for the rain to stop so that they can get wash...

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Baby Betty Rothwell loves her orange juice. She was very thin and ailing until lend-lease concentrated orange juice arrived in England for special distribution to children, nursing mothers and invalids. With the juice added to her wartime diet, she soon became the healthy one-year-old in the photograph. Betty lives with her parents, Edna and Edward Rothwell in quaintly-named Boot Lane, in Bolton, Lancashire

Baby Betty Rothwell loves her orange juice. She was very thin and aili...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Pork, lard, onions and spice in the amount which go into each finished can

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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Maxim Litvinov, Russian ambassador to the United States, addresses luncheon in observance of second anniversary of lend-lease at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C.

Maxim Litvinov, Russian ambassador to the United States, addresses lun...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian coolies pull a newly-arrived lend-lease lathe into a munitions factory in India. This machine alone will add at least two more cannons monthly to the already greatly increased output of the plant

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian coolies pu...

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A black and white photo of a plane in the snow. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a plane in the snow. Office of War Informat...

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

French conclude agreement on lend-lease and reverse lend-lease. Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew signs French lend-lease and reverse lend-lease. Left to right: Henri Bonnet, French Ambassador, Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State and Jean Monnet

French conclude agreement on lend-lease and reverse lend-lease. Unders...

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Houses for Britain. Side view of model prefabricated house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. of the type of temporary, emergency family dwellings which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. Twenty-four feet square, it contains two bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bathroom

Houses for Britain. Side view of model prefabricated house erected by ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 38-caliber revolvers shipped to England from the United States under lend-lease are unpacked at an English ordnance depot

Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 38-caliber revolvers shipped to E...

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Lend-lease share of 1942 food supply. A graphic chart issued by the Office of War Information (OWI) showing the percentages of domestic supply of principal foods absorbed by lend-lease shipments

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Lend-lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gun powder shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel one hundred feet underground dug out of solid rock, in western England. The staff here works twenty-four hours a day handling lend-lease materials arriving from the United States

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Lend-Lease to Britain. English workmen handle a case of motor equipment arriving from the United States under lend-lease, at an unpacking bay of an ordnance depot in England

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How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. A lend-lease tank coming over the side of a cargo ship in a United States Atlantic Coast port. Many tanks are carried as deck-load

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Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years we have simply thrown things out when we were through with them, without a thought that they might be reused. Here on this garbage scow carrying rubbish for disposal is a huge stock of waste paper, so vitally needed today for conversion into packing paper for defense and lend-lease products

Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years w...

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carrying ships built under lend-lease at a large New England yard and launched along with two destroyers and one liberty ship at a record breaking mass launching August 16, 1942

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carr...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory"pulls up a sizeable haul of fish. Almost all of this catch will be filleted and frozen for military and lend-lease shipment. Of the total packs in the United States, 60 percent of the salmon and 80 percent of the sardine and mackerel are consumed by the armed forces here and abroad

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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Stern of a newly completed ship at a New England shipyard, one of five cargo-carrying vessels built for Britain which were christened at a mass launching in New England on August 16, 1942. The five ships were constructed under lend-lease and sent to England immediately upon completion

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Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are the first official pictures released in the United States of the recent meetings of Premier I.V. Stalin, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain; and W. Averrell Harriman, representing President Roosevelt. The three men met in the middle of August, 1942, at the request of the Soviet leader, and held a series of conversations concerned with the future conduct of the war. Also present was V.M. Molotov, Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The meetings lasted four days. Molotov, Churchill, and Harriman review Russian troops at Moscow civil airport. Note new type of jackets Russian soldiers are wearing

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphate fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro w...

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Guests at luncheon of dehydrated food held at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., on second anniversary of lend-lease: Leslie Wheeler, Department of Agriculture; John D. East, Lend-lease Administration; Boaz Long, United States ambassador to Ecuador; Blackwell Smith, War Production Board (WPB)

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Australia in the war. Dispatch riders of an Australian armored division lined up for review. These are American motorcycles, furnished under the lend-lease program

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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. An American M-4 tank coming aboard a United Nations freighter that will carry it, as part of a lend-lease shipment, together with food and other war necessities, to one of our allies

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The Ambassador of Greece, Cimon P. Diamantopoulos watches as Representative Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs accepts a plate of food, which had first been dehydrated, then rehydrated, at a luncheon held in observance of the second anniversary of lend-lease, on March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C.

The Ambassador of Greece, Cimon P. Diamantopoulos watches as Represent...

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Lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and the Norwegian ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, at luncheon held in observance of second anniversary of lend-lease, on March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C.

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. General view, gun recoditioning. In this "reconditioning room" of an Indian munitions factory, Indian workmen, using lend-lease equipment, help to keep Allied guns in action.

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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. Cases of dried apples, part of a lend-lease shipment, move from a pier to a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with other vital necessities to one of our allies

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Correspondent overseas. George Tucker, Associated Press war correspondent, is shown as he made trip with American truck convoy through the Persian corridor carrying supplies for Russia

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Women trimming the pork to size before treating it for twenty percent shrinkage. Left to right: Dorothy Roland, ex-housewife; Flora Keeton, ex-housewife; Susan Brown, packer; Edith Bixton, telephone operator

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