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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...

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Leaves berth virtually surrounded by stricken ships. The U.S.S. Neosho, navy oil tanker, cautiously backs away from her berth (right center) in a successful effort to escape the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. At left the battleship U.S.S. California lists after aerial blows. Other crippled warships and part of the hull of the capsized U.S.S. Oklahoma may be seen in the background. The Neosho was later sunk in the Coral Sea

Leaves berth virtually surrounded by stricken ships. The U.S.S. Neosho...

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Bald Knob, Arkansas. War emergency pipeling from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Inspecting seal on oil tanker

Bald Knob, Arkansas. War emergency pipeling from Longview, Texas to No...

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Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komorosky. He was a Russian sea captain, a graduate of the Czar's naval academy, an officer in the British Navy, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy during the World War, first master of a Standard Oil Company tanker. He is now retired from the sea, and makes a living as a farmer. He is a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client

Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komorosky. He was a Rus...

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Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headquarters, speaking before labor-management committee members at Scranton, July 29th. Seated, left to right: Earl Schenck, Naval Consultant; Earl Williams, tanker sailor; Dmitri Goulandris, torpedoed sailor; Michael J. Kosik

Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headqu...

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Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komoroski. He was a Russian sea captain, a graduate of the Czar's navel academy, an officer in the British navy, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy during the World War, first master of a Standard Oil Company tanker. He is now retired from the sea, and makes a living as a farmer. He is a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client

Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komoroski. He was a Rus...

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Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komorosky. He was a Russian sea captain, a graduate of the Czar's naval academy, an officer in the British Navy, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy during the World War, first master of a Standard Oil Company tanker. He is now retired from the sea, and makes a living as a farmer. He is a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client

Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komorosky. He was a Rus...

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