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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro grenade throwers. A Negro infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, poised to throw an American pineapple of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Men and women from all walks of life, like the members of this riveting team, contribute their skills to the production of B-17F heavy bombers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Martín y José Reynal - El Gráfico 698

North American Aviation Incorporated. Inglewood, California(?). A worker with a rivet gun is shown admiring a North American B-25 medium bomber

Well-wishers stand in front of a formation of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel to bid farewell to two friends assigned to the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41) as the ship prepares to depart Yokosuka for the last time. The MIDWAY, which has been based in Japan since 1973, will be replaced by the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) as the Navy's forward-based aircraft carrier

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro grenade throwers. A Negro infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, poised to throw an American pineapple of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro grenade throwers. A Negro infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, poised to throw an American pineapple of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro grenade throwers. A Negro infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, poised to throw an American pineapple of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Grenade throwers. A package for Hitler. An infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia prepares to hurl a pineapple of the inedible variety. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Grenade throwers. A package for Hitler. An infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia prepares to hurl a pineapple of the inedible variety. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Grenade throwers. A package for Hitler. An infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia prepares to hurl a pineapple of the inedible variety. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Grenade throwers. A package for Hitler. An infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia prepares to hurl a pineapple of the inedible variety. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro grenade throwers. A Negro infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, poised to throw an American pineapple of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in a decontamination outfit

In memory of the American soldiers and sailors, 1861-1866

Soldiers destroy a target with flame throwers as part of a combined arms live fire demonstration during the multinational joint service exercise Bright Star '85

One of our new battleships of the land: a mighty M-4 tank that will disturb a lot of Axis plans. In the welded hulls of these massive machines is armament that ensures tremendous firepower in the hands of tough, resourceful "tankers." Location: Fort Knox, Kentucky

Gunston Hall, 10709 Gunston Road, Lorton, Fairfax County, Virginia

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. A soldier using a barbed wire anchor spike to screw in a picket. He is wearing special gloves that are made for handling barbed wire

Gunston Hall, 10709 Gunston Road, Lorton, Fairfax County, Virginia

Locust plague (fuel for flame throwers?)

Mt. Vernon - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Fort Knox, Kentucky. M-3 tanks. The M-3 tank packs a wallop which the Axis is only beginning to feel. One of these capable monsters, with a tough American crew aboard, is put through its paces in the training area near Fort Knox, Kentucky

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. Worker operating the progressive welder is fabricating bomb shackle frames. More than 500 operations on 100 parts are required to assemble the shackles. And incidentally, before it can be assembled, fifty parts requiring 167 tool operations are in order. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

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