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Marines Loading Truck
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Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a dozer shovel loader to fill a truck parked on a beach. A ship is in the water behind the truck. The original caption reads: "QUICK LOADING----On a beach of a Hawaiian island, Marines employ an International TD-9 with dozer shovel loader to fill a truck. The TD-9 has a two load of four thousand pounds of pallatized supplies."
1945
International Harvester Company
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W012YMF
WHi 64113
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Unloading Marine Supplies
1945
Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and dozer shovel loader to unload supplies on a beach. A ship is in the background. The original caption reads: "Towing four thousand...
International TD-9 Diesel Crawler Tractor
1944
Soldiers, supplies and an International TD-9 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) on a beach at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. The original caption reads: "COAST GUAR...
Soldier Shoveling Mud Off Crawler Tractor
1945
Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The original caption reads: "WHO'S GOT A TOOT...
Marines Unloading Supplies
1945
Marines use an International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to unload supplies and equipment from a ship. Many ships are in the water in the background. The original caption reads: "LAN...
Marines Using Crawler Tractor on Landing Craft
1944
U.S. Marines using an International TD-9 diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) with a Bucyrus Erie shovel on an LCM (Landing Craft, Materiel) at Roi during the Marshall Island invasion. Original cap...
Marine Casualties at Iwo Jima
1945
Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an International truck are in the background.
