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| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses an oxy-acetylene torch to fit a copper tube in the production of an aircraft torpedo. He is wearing an International Harvester Compan... |
| Date: | 06 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing safety glasses uses what appears to be a piece of sandpaper to polish a torpedo part at International Harvester's McCormick... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman's face is visible through an opening in the after-body of an aircraft torpedo as she uses a tool to tap holes in it. The photograph was taken at In... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker William Nolan works on the final assembly of a 20 mm cannon before proof firing at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing an apron readies a shell turning machine for operation at International Harvester's New Brighton Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Four shirtless soldiers strain to push a large gun over sandy terrain in Panama. Each man also wears a helmet and carries a backpack, a rifle, and a cantee... |
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