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The war of munitions. How Great Britain has mobilised her industries / G.K.

The war of munitions. How Great Britain has mobilised her industries /...

Poster showing 14 vignettes of the British munitions industry, including related descriptions and facts.

Our country needs ships to carry our boys "Over There" and keep them well supplied with food, clothing, and the munitions of war / Herbert Meyer ; Thomsen-Ellis Co. Baltimore, New York.

Our country needs ships to carry our boys "Over There" and keep them w...

Poster showing a small scene of work in a shipyard. Title continues: The product made in this plant is used for building ships. The ships can be completed only as fast as the material and equipment for each shi... More

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain photograph

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain photograph

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MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain portrait photograph

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain portrait photograph

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[Two men seated alongside a munitions shell from McCord & Co., one holding a model military plane]

[Two men seated alongside a munitions shell from McCord & Co., one hol...

A special meeting. Sen. Gerald P. Nye, and Sen. Homer T. Bone (left to right seated) members of the Senate Munitions Committee, called a special meeting today to discuss the possibility of a Senate investigation of Ethiopian oil concessions. They are shown here as they talked to the members of the press, 9/3/35

A special meeting. Sen. Gerald P. Nye, and Sen. Homer T. Bone (left to...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Making a weld on a filter head in the ammonia synthesis system at the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high- pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ma...

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War production drive. This mechanical bulletin board was sponsored by the labor-management committee in a factory making munitions. As each of the three divisions turned out products, the shells rose on the scoreboard. As each shell rose, the trousers on the corresponding figure fell

War production drive. This mechanical bulletin board was sponsored by ...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen, and is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Applying lagging on low-pressure heat interchanger piping in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high- pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ap...

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Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Combined Munitions Assignments Board weekly session in Washington. At conference table left to right are: Major General L.D. Clay (American); Harry Hopkins (American); Major General J.H. Burns (American); Lieutenant Colonel E.C. Kielkopf (American); Wing Commander T.E.H. Birley (British); Brigadier General W.F. Tompkins (American); Brigadier General S.P. Spalding (American); Brigadier L.F.S. Dawes (British); Air Vice Marshal W.F. McNeece Foster (British); Lieutenant General G.N. Macready (British); Major General R.C. Moore (American); Colonel J.B. Franks (American); Admiral J.M. Reeves (American). In the background, left to right: Lieutenant Colonel W. Skidmore (American), Wing Commander R.C. Storiar (British)

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Combined Munitions Assignments B...

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, South of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 104 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter...

Significance: Building 3580 provided space for munitions maintenance operations. In addition to a tool room and a small office, a shop area contained conveyor belts and tables for inspection, assembly, and disa... More

Wanted - men, munitions, money. If you can neither enlist nor make munitions, buy the new 4 1/2% war loan! / Baxter ; printed by A. White & Co., 6, Hill Street, Finsbury, E.C.

Wanted - men, munitions, money. If you can neither enlist nor make mun...

Poster showing coins and a bag of money. Poster no. 13.

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain portrait photograph

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain portrait photograph

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Erection of a heater stack in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Er...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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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.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. General view, gun...

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Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Munitions Maintenance Administration Building, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Munitions Maintenance Administration Build...

Significance: Building 3592 provided space for munitions maintenance, and squadron administrative and control functions. It was originally designated as a support facility for a kennel located directly behind i... More

We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions! / printed by Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds and London.

We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the mu...

Poster showing a soldier, with a battle in the background, shaking hands with a worker, with an industrial landscape in the background. Poster no. 85c.

Keeps eye on allied purchases of arms. Washington, D.C., Nov. 27. Holding one of the most responsible posts in Washington these days is Lieut. Col. Charles Hines, Secretary of the Army-Navy Munitions Board. His principal duty is to see that allied purchases of arms do not interfere with arms production for U.S. defense. He knows how Britain and France have shifted their buying from normal imports to war goods. Also he knows how carefully they are rationing every dollar of foreign exchange

Keeps eye on allied purchases of arms. Washington, D.C., Nov. 27. Hold...

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

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

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

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

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Combined Munitions Assignments Board. American and British officials of the Combined Munitions Assignments Board discuss their problems before the large world map in the conference room of the board in Washington. Left to right are: Lieutenant General G. N. Macready (British); Dr. I. Lubin (American); Colonel J.B. Franks (American); and Air Vice Marshal W.F. MacNeece Foster (British)

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. American and British officials o...

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, North of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 103 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeenth & Twenty-first, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...

Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324

India in the war. A worker in one of India's fast expanding munitions plants. India produces more than fifty different kinds of arms and ammunition of the most up-to-date type. Alltogether seventy-five percent of her requirements of war supplies is made in India

India in the war. A worker in one of India's fast expanding munitions ...

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An ammunition transport at Gramada, 1915 Transport de munitions à Gramada, 1915.

An ammunition transport at Gramada, 1915 Transport de munitions à Gram...

Print shows a Serbian soldier leading oxen pulling a cart of ammunition along a muddy road in Serbia. Illus. in: La guerre de cinq ans - Les Serbes in 1912-1916 par Sampson Tchernoff : The five-years war - The... More

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain portrait photograph

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain portrait photograph

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Munitions Bldg. [i.e., Main Navy and Munitions Buildings, temporary office buildings at Constitution Avenue near 18th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

Munitions Bldg. [i.e., Main Navy and Munitions Buildings, temporary of...

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The freedom loving peoples of the Netherlands East Indies have long had their own armament program underway. They have been preparing to defend their islands ever since the Nipponese embarked upon their program to "unify" the Pacific area. This younger worker is mixing explosives for shells at an island munitions plant

The freedom loving peoples of the Netherlands East Indies have long ha...

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

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

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Making a pipe joint on a liquid vaporizer in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ma...

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, North of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 103 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeenth & Twenty-first, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...

Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeenth & Twenty-first, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...

Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter...

Significance: Building 3580 provided space for munitions maintenance operations. In addition to a tool room and a small office, a shop area contained conveyor belts and tables for inspection, assembly, and disa... More

[Sailors removing munitions from warship]

[Sailors removing munitions from warship]

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[Picketers: America's Food and Munitions are used to crush the Irish Republic, etc.]

[Picketers: America's Food and Munitions are used to crush the Irish R...

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MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain portrait photograph

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Public domain portrait photograph

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New Federal Reserve Building taken from the Munitions Building

New Federal Reserve Building taken from the Munitions Building

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One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for replacement uniforms for American soldiers and nurses, thus saving valuable shipping space for carrying munitions and supplies from the United States. They fill two roles in the war effort as hundreds of thousands of pounds of Australian mutton are served annually in the American soldiers' mess

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for re...

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here a junk dealer unloads his truck in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills (Carnegie Steel, Chicago, Illinois)

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnace...

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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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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, North of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 103 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, South of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 104 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter...

Significance: Building 3580 provided space for munitions maintenance operations. In addition to a tool room and a small office, a shop area contained conveyor belts and tables for inspection, assembly, and disa... More

India in the war. A worker in one of India's fast expanding munitions plants. India produces more than fifty different kinds of arms and ammunition of the most up-to-date type. Alltogether seventy-five percent of her requirements of war supplies is made in India

India in the war. A worker in one of India's fast expanding munitions ...

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L.C.C. Tech Institute, Munitions Class

L.C.C. Tech Institute, Munitions Class

Photograph shows a woman receiving training in machine work in a munitions class offered by the London County Council in May 1917 during World War I, England. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

MUNITIONS WORKERS. WOMEN - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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At munitions quiz. C.L. Bardo, former president of the New York Shipbuilding Co., was brought into the munitions quiz concerning a letter commenting on the future of a Florida concern. 2/5/35

At munitions quiz. C.L. Bardo, former president of the New York Shipbu...

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Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available to Indian industry by lend-lease, is hauled by Bangali laborers into a munitions factory in India, where skilled native workmen will take over. This piece of equipment will increase the factory's output by two cannons monthly

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available t...

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

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

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Fitting a valve to serve one of the gas compressors in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Fi...

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, South of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 104 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, South of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 104 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

Navy Day Walter B. Howe talk at Munitions Bldg., 10/27/26

Navy Day Walter B. Howe talk at Munitions Bldg., 10/27/26

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Operating a valve servicing on of the gas compressors in the TVA's new synthetic plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Op...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A gas-cooling tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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Milly? Carroll [with sign] America's Food and Munitions are used to crush the Irish Republic

Milly? Carroll [with sign] America's Food and Munitions are used to cr...

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Joseph Pennell - [Munitions river]

Joseph Pennell - [Munitions river]

Print shows workers in the foreground with ships in the river and factories on the other side, in England; also smokestacks with billowing smoke. [His English war work series] Wuerth, 440. Edition of 50. Signed... More

WOOD, ROBERT E. BRIG. GENERAL, U.S.A., ACTING Q.M. GENERAL. AT DESK IN MUNITIONS BUILDING

WOOD, ROBERT E. BRIG. GENERAL, U.S.A., ACTING Q.M. GENERAL. AT DESK IN...

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One year of reciprocal aid. British labor has built hundreds of camps such as this, as part of a tremendous program to provide the American soldiers arriving in Britain. Hospitals, airfields, munitions, planes, and equipment of all kinds are included. Supplies given us by Britain in six months, exclusive of construction materials, would have required 1,200,000 ship-tons of space if transported from the United States

One year of reciprocal aid. British labor has built hundreds of camps ...

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a total of 160 years of experience as skilled machinists. They are contributing this experience to the De Land, Florida production pool. Left to right: A.B. Kenyon, seventy, retired tool maker; William E. Mansfield, seventy-one, who made weapons and munitions for Winchester Arms in the first World War; and M.E. Carr, sixty-seven, owner of a plant which is sub-contracting aircraft work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a ...

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

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

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Fitting a valve to serve one of the gas compressors in TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonia nitrate for use in making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources for strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Fi...

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnace...

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New shells on old scales. Squatting before an old-fashioned measuring scale, this Indian workman and the shells before him, symbolizes the United Nations' mutual aid. The shells were manufactured somewhere in Eastern India from U.S. steel provided under lend-lease An Indian inspector weighs a twenty-five shot in one of the munitions factories where the skill of Indian workmen and the efficiency of new lend-lease machinery continues to speed tha Allied war effort

New shells on old scales. Squatting before an old-fashioned measuring ...

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Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Munitions Maintenance Administration Building, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Munitions Maintenance Administration Build...

Significance: Building 3592 provided space for munitions maintenance, and squadron administrative and control functions. It was originally designated as a support facility for a kennel located directly behind i... More

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, South of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 104 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

Milly? Carroll with sign America's Food and Munitions are used to crush the Irish Republic]

Milly? Carroll with sign America's Food and Munitions are used to crus...

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

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

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Manufacturing cartridges in a Mexican munitions factory

Manufacturing cartridges in a Mexican munitions factory

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Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Combined Munitions Assignments Board at weekly meetings in Washington, with Chairman Harry Hopkins presiding. Staff officers in the background, attend the meetings. Seated at the conference table clockwise are the following: Major General L.D. Clay (American); Harry Hopkins (American); Major General J.H. Burns (American); Lieutenant Colonel E.C. Kielkopf (American); Wing Commander T.E.H. Birley (British); Brigadier General W.F. Tompkins (American); Brigadier General S.P. Spalding (American); Brigadier L.F.S. Dawes (British); Air Vice Marshal W.F. MacNeece Foster (British); Lieutenant General G.N. Macready (British); Major General R.C. Moore (American); Colonel J.B. Franks (American); Admiral J.M. Reeves (American); Vice Admiral J.W.S. Dorling (British). In the background, left to right are Lieutenant Colonel B.F.R. Seitz (American); Colonel J.Y. York, Jr. (American); Colonel W.R.D. Robertson (British); Colonel C.M. Steese (American); Major W.M. Martin, Jr. (American); Colonel W.H. Hobson (American); Major A. Selbie (British); Brigadier General P.H. Tansey (American); Mr. M. Michaels (British); Lieutenant Colonel W. Skidmore (American)

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Combined Munitions Assignments B...

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Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Staff members of the Combined Munitions Assignments Board discuss military matters at weekly meetings in Washington. Left to right are: Lieutenant M.V. Stewart (British); Mr. E.A. Seal (American); Brigadier L.F.S. Dawes (British); and Wing Commander T.E.H. Birley (British)

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Staff members of the Combined Mu...

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Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Munitions Maintenance Administration Building, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Munitions Maintenance Administration Build...

Significance: Building 3592 provided space for munitions maintenance, and squadron administrative and control functions. It was originally designated as a support facility for a kennel located directly behind i... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter...

Significance: Building 3580 provided space for munitions maintenance operations. In addition to a tool room and a small office, a shop area contained conveyor belts and tables for inspection, assembly, and disa... More

View from new Federal Reserve building. Washington, D.C., May 12. Members of the Federal Reserve Board will get this view form their offices in the new building which is now nearing completion. On the right can be seen the Capitol, Monument, Navy and Munitions building

View from new Federal Reserve building. Washington, D.C., May 12. Memb...

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The Empire's need. Men, munitions, money. Which are you supplying?

The Empire's need. Men, munitions, money. Which are you supplying?

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Pier, Jersey City after munitions explosion

Pier, Jersey City after munitions explosion

Photograph shows damaged freight cars owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. at the Black Tom munitions depot after an explosion set off by German saboteurs on July 30, 1916, on Black Tom Island in New York Ha... More

Munitions Bldg. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Munitions Bldg. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. An operator in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. An...

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U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeenth & Twenty-first, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...

Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeenth & Twenty-first, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...

Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeenth & Twenty-first, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...

Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeenth & Twenty-first, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...

Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeenth & Twenty-first, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Navy & Munitions Buildings, Constitution Avenue between Seventeen...

Significance: Last to be demolished of the temporary buildings erected on the Mall during World Wars I and II. Survey number: HABS DC-324

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Munitions Maintenance Administration Building, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Munitions Maintenance Administration Build...

Significance: Building 3592 provided space for munitions maintenance, and squadron administrative and control functions. It was originally designated as a support facility for a kennel located directly behind i... More

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, South of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 104 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, South of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 104 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter...

Significance: Building 3580 provided space for munitions maintenance operations. In addition to a tool room and a small office, a shop area contained conveyor belts and tables for inspection, assembly, and disa... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter Road in Weapons Storage Area, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Conventional Munitions Shop, Off Perimeter...

Significance: Building 3580 provided space for munitions maintenance operations. In addition to a tool room and a small office, a shop area contained conveyor belts and tables for inspection, assembly, and disa... More

The Empire's need. Men, munitions, money. Which are you supplying!

The Empire's need. Men, munitions, money. Which are you supplying!

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Metal for munitions. Hot brass pours into moulds at an eastern Navy yard, rush foundary operations for greater U.S. fleet

Metal for munitions. Hot brass pours into moulds at an eastern Navy ya...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. An operator adjusts a gate valve in the ammonia condenser section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals into ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. An...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Adjusting a valve servicing one of the gas compressors in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ad...

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Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Combined Munitions Assignments Board at weekly meeting in Washington, with Chairman Harry Hopkins presiding. Staff officers seated at the conference table in the foreground are Brigadier L.F.S. Dawes (British); Air Vice Marshal W.F. MacNeece Foster (British); Lieutenant General G.N. Macready (British); Major General R.C. Moore (American); Colonel J.B. Franks (American); Admiral J.M. Reeves (American); Vice Admiral J.W.S. Dorling (British); Mr. E.A. Seal (British); Captain C.J. Parrish (American); Colonel E.C. Langmead (American); Major General L.D. Clay (American); Mr. Hopkins (American); Major General J.H. Burns (American); Lieutenant Colonel E.C. Kielkopf (American); and Wing Commander T.E.H. Birley (British); in the foreground at left are Commander R.S. McIver (American) and Lieutenant F.A.R. MacNab (British)

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Combined Munitions Assignments B...

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Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Staff members of the Combined Munitions Assignments Board compare data at weekly meeting of the board in Washington. Left to right are: Wing Commander R.C. Storiar (British); Air Commodore H.T. Lydford (British); Colonel E.C. Langmead (American); and Captain D.S. Blossom, Jr. (American)

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Staff members of the Combined Mu...

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunitions Depot, North of Campbell Trail, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Munitions Storage Bunker, Naval Ammunition...

Significance: Building 103 is considered significant for its association with Naval history in the Puget Sound region, with ship-building and repair in Washington State and with the World War II in the Pacific;... More

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