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A couple of men walking down a muddy road. Office of War Information Photograph

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Image source: Official Australian Commonwealth photo.

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 33, frame 946.

Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.

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papua new guinea nitrate negatives lot 2254 united states office of war information photo new guinea jungles new guinea transport natives aid natives jungles mountain ranges sanananda area ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration home front wwii ethnic groups world war 2 library of congress wwii photographs historical photos australia
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01/01/1943
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Armies in World War 2

Photograhs of the largest military conflict in history
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papua new guinea
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Library of Congress
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Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Cpl. Derek C. Brisendine prepares detonation cord for

Fair employment practices in defense industries. A poster distributed by the OEM (Office of Emergency Management) Labor Division and the President's Committe on Fair Employment Practice to war plants and employment offices throughout the United States

Victory food from American waters. Tomorrow's fishermen--young Gloucester boys push wagons of rosefish from the unloading pier to the processing plant where the fish are filleted and frozen. Many of the boys will follow their forefathers and fishermen in New England waters

Aborigines of Papua - New Guinea. PAPUA-Typen, Tafel 18

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Young and old, everybody is Victory Gardening this spring, and there'll soon be hardly a backyard that's not under cultivation. Prior to planting, this gardener is raking the soil to pulverize and prepare it for seed

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Army trucks and other vehicles at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are checked thoroughly, and at regular intervals. Wherever possible, motorized military equipment is maintained in constant tip top shape, instantly ready for strenuous action

KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea (July 8, 2015) Hospital Corpsman

Reciprocal aid. Two sergeants from Texas, Sergeant A. Baker and Technical Sergeant Roy Hill, carry a string of British bullets over their shoulders to a British Spitfire. American and British air forces work side by side in the European theatre, with British furnishing important supplies and equipment under the Reciprocal Aid Program

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

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papua new guinea nitrate negatives lot 2254 united states office of war information photo new guinea jungles new guinea transport natives aid natives jungles mountain ranges sanananda area ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration home front wwii ethnic groups world war 2 library of congress wwii photographs historical photos australia