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Production. Shell loading. On the "firing line" of a large Midwest loading plant, artillery shells soon to batter the Axis are sprayed with olive drab paint. This women is a sprayer, but women also do the "puddling" of TNT in shells better than men. For "puddling," the stirring and packing of TNT in shells, is done much as a housewife prepares dough for cake. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. On the "firing line" of a large Midwest loa...

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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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Sergeant Carl Hardy, twenty, of Shelby, North Carolina, stalking a tank on maneuvers with the Second Army in middle Tennessee. The simulated twenty-nine pound TNT statchel charge laid on the bogey of the light tank will "wreck" it, and possibly "kill" the four operators within

Sergeant Carl Hardy, twenty, of Shelby, North Carolina, stalking a tan...

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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

Lend-lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gun powder shipped from the United...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Workmen in India make thermometers from glass tubing supplied under lend-lease. These thermometers are used in making TNT and are too fragile to be shipped from this shop. They are delived by hand to nearby explosive manufacturers

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Workmen in India ...

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Production. Shell loading. TNT is poured into shells through these funnels on a distribution line in a large Midwest loading plant. TNT, used almost exclusively in shells, looks like a good grade of maple sugar. It is believed that soon the United States will use only TNT in bombs also. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. TNT is poured into shells through these fun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ready for 1000 pounds of TNT. Checking up on torpedo parts which are being turned out at top speed for the two-ocean Navy at an eastern Navy arsenal

Ready for 1000 pounds of TNT. Checking up on torpedo parts which are b...

Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Production. Shell loading. Nonchalantly loading a two-ton "block buster" at a large Midwest plant. Every precaution is taken, but a certain stoicism is required for this job. The workmen fill each end of the bomb with TNT, delivered "hot," and the remaining spaces with amatol, a mixture of fifty percent ammonium hydrate and fifty percent TNT. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. Nonchalantly loading a two-ton "block buste...

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A black and white photo of a bunch of cups. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a bunch of cups. Office of War Information ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Production. Shell loading. Molten TNT is poured into 75 mm. shells at a large Midwest loading plant. Shells from 20 mm. to 155 mm. are loaded at this plant in addition to special shells required by the British. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. Molten TNT is poured into 75 mm. shells at ...

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