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| Date: | 05 01 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers loading Farmall tractors onto rail cars outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original caption reads: "Machines for use in the p... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of uniformed men ride in the back of an International vehicle which is towing a firearm. The original caption reads: "M-2-4 truck and 75-mm. gun, a... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A military airplane drops torpedoes on a boat floating in a body of water in an illustration titled: "A Kid from Kansas." |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Side view of six women sitting on a torpedo placed on a rolling cart at an International Harvester factory. Another woman woman stands to the side with her... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe sits on a Farmall H tractor while a uniformed man stands on the top of a military tank. Two more men are sitting in ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three marines dressed in uniform, carrying packs and holding guns, pull an ammunition cart through the water towards the beach at Iwo Jima. Military boats ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Anthony R. Buzzelli opens an ammunition box with an axe for Marines battling on Iwo Jima. Another man on the right appears to be openin... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of marines Private Richard Klatt, of North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (left), and Private First Class Wilfred Voegeli, as they set fire to brush ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Oscar Olsen uses a borescope to inspect 20mm cannons at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker James Matzke clamps the barrel of a 20mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker James Matzke raises the barrel of a 20mm cannon onto a receiving block to be inspected by Beverly Ackerman at International Harvester's St. ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Stella Ringstrand mills a 20mm gun part at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Byrdine Fowler operates a grinder at International Harvester's St. Paul Works to take down the outer dimension on the gas sleeve of a 20mm c... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Joan Harris sits at a workspace to inspect a 20 mm cannon bolt body part at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Tools are on the table... |
| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Emil Borchert grinds the shell receiver end of the barrel of a 20 mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's New Brighton Works turn 105mm shell cases on a piece of machinery. |
| 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. |
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