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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, later a Wisconsin senator, posing as a tail gunner during World War II in Douglas SBD Bomber. McCarthy was an intelligen... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men, natives of the Solomon Islands, standing on a U.S. Marine Corps truck made by International Harvester. Some of the men are holding rifles. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
| Date: | 01 13 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of new female factory workers receiving their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for making ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne... |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Mabel Pendleton is shown holding German knives with a German flag on a table. The items, retired from service, were sent by her son, Sgt. Frederick N. Hall... |
| Date: | 07 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. T.H. Soehle with various items from Germany which her son, Corporal Theodore Soehle, Jr., a military police officer in France, sent home. |
| Date: | 04 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Celebrating the 47th anniversary of the purchase of the first "submersible torpedo boat" from its inventor, J.B. Holland, for service in World War I, are C... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of Dutch Underground arresting a German soldier on the day of liberation in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | A factory worker operating a broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Broaching is a conspicuous fe... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker operating a broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Caption on photograph reads: "This American hydra... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers stand outside firing booths to conduct testing at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | A factory worker operates a vertical broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Vertical bro... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers operate lathes at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Women employees have been tra... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect parts at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Many small parts for the gun a... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers lift a gun at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "The workmen shown in this picture are li... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers inspect a gun at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "In the test firing department careful... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker operates a surface grinder at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "This woman employe... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) Millimeter Gun Plant operate a factory machine. Caption on photograph reads: "First machining of t... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Factory workers machining torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This section of the torpedo plant houses a line of ... |
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