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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A worker sits behind the control panel of an Army air-borne invasion tank to test the vehicle under simulated combat conditions. |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Workers from the Tunnicliff Construction Company build a temporary office building at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. On the right a par... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | View of the grounds of International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal, looking south towards the proposed East boundary fence line. A man is standing i... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View looking East toward the proposed south boundary fence line of International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. A railroad track and car are on the ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | Men are walking along railroad tracks near the 23rd Street entrance at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 03 04 1941 |
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| Description: | View of the driver's side of an International K-7 4x2 truck with a dump body made for the U.S. Army-Quartermaster Division. The truck is parked on a paved ... |
| Date: | 09 18 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on ladders while working on the side of a building at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Another man is standing near... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | A man using an International truck to haul scrap metal for J.G. Larson & Sons, an International Harvester dealership. The man is dropping the metal off at ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | John De Roy pulling a trailer load of scrap metal with a Farmall-H tractor. The metal was collected as part of a scrap drive. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men unloading scrap metal from a truck near an International Harvester dealership, possibly Landaal Brothers of Waupun. One man is standing on the truc... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of children, including members of the Woodville High School Booster Club, stand near a pile of scrap metal. Some of the children are holding musica... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men watch as workers cut down scrap iron and load it on a railroad car as part of a wartime scrap drive. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three men stand near a trailer while weighing in a load of scrap iron brought from a farm by William Gory (at far right). At left is Jim Barrett, manager o... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men from Anderson Motor Sales, an International Harvester dealership, unload scrap metal from the bed of an International truck. The truck is parked ne... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men with horses, wagons, cars and trucks are parked alongside railroad tracks near a large scrap metal pile. The men are participating in a wartime scrap d... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A man stands near scrap metal piled beside a dealership building. The metal was collected for a war time scrap drive. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group looks on as a man uses a cutting torch to reduce scrap iron into readily marketable pieces in the farm scrap collection drive in Barton County. Acc... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The Elk Mound High School band entertaining farmers as they weigh in loads of scrap at Ausman Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys are outdoors weighing metal collected in a wartime scrap drive. In the background is a truck and industrial buildings. |
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| Description: | Snapshot taken by Sigurd Olson of refugees scavenging in military trash bins. Although the location is not identified, it is probably in or near Berlin. |
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