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One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek that leads to an American Army mess. Under reciprocal lend-lease, our armed forces have received from Australia 26,900,000 pounds of beaf and veal, lamb, mutton and pork, 20,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 1,800,000 dozens of eggs and 5,464,000 quarts of milk, and many other foodstuffs

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek that leads to an American Army mess. Under reciprocal lend-lease, our armed forces have received from Australia 26,900,000 pounds of beaf and veal, lamb, mutton and pork, 20,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 1,800,000 dozens of eggs and 5,464,000 quarts of milk, and many other foodstuffs

One year of reciprocal aid. Australia has built many facilities for the American forces, including airfields, barracks and motor vehicles. Here is shown the largest airfield in Australia, covering some forty square miles, with repair hangers, workshops and living quarters. This is one of 100 such fields built in Australia to service the U.S. planes

A U.S. Army troop assigned to Task Forces Victory treats a sheep during a Cooperative Medical Assistance (CMA) mission. Soldiers assigned to Task Force Victory, Task Force 168th, Task Force 325 and the Parwan Provincial Reconstruction Team, setup three different diagnostic and treatment sites that provide medical assistance to men, women and animals, in Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Army PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Vernell Hall) (Released)

One year of reciprocal aid. Australia has built many facilities for the American forces, including airfields, barracks and motor vehicles. Here is shown the largest airfield in Australia, covering some forty square miles, with repair hangers, workshops and living quarters. This is one of 100 such fields built in Australia to service the U.S. planes

One year of reciprocal aid. American soldiers at work in a kitchen fatigue pantry in Australia, with newly-erected barracks in the background. As reciprocal aid, modern facilities like these have been built for our men without cost to the United States, not only in Australia, but in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the areas controlled by the fighting French as well

One year of reciprocal aid. Labor resources of New Zealand, with its total population of less than 2,000,000 persons, have been strained by the demands of wartime and her women have turned to the farms and the factories to assure production of food and facilities for the American soldiers in the South Pacific

A U.S. Army troop assigned to Task Forces Victory treats a sheep during a Cooperative Medical Assistance (CMA) mission. Soldiers assigned to Task Force Victory, Task Force 168th, Task Force 325 and the Parwan Provincial Reconstruction Team, setup three different diagnostic and treatment sites that provide medical assistance to men, women and animals, in Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Army PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Vernell Hall) (Released)

A U.S. Army troop assigned to Task Forces Victory treats a sheep during a Cooperative Medical Assistance (CMA) mission. Soldiers assigned to Task Force Victory, Task Force 168th, Task Force 325 and the Parwan Provincial Reconstruction Team, setup three different diagnostic and treatment sites that provide medical assistance to men, women and animals, in Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Army PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Vernell Hall) (Released)

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for replacement uniforms for American soldiers and nurses, thus saving valuable shipping space for carrying munitions and supplies from the United States. They fill two roles in the war effort as hundreds of thousands of pounds of Australian mutton are served annually in the American soldiers' mess

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label_outline Explore Australia Plains, Mutton, Roles

American Red Cross - Recreation and Sports - American Red Cross Canteen, Issoudan, France. American soldiers enjoying a moving picture show

An artist's concept of an M-X missile being launched from its canister with the rocket engines ignited. The missile weighs approximately 192,000 pounds and will carry 10 warheads

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Draven Roe (Top) and Senior

Farmers in warehouse during the auction sale. Two bookmen on each side of the row follow the auctioneer and buyers calculating the amount of the sale by multiplying the price times the number of pounds. Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina. See subregional notes (Odum) November 9, 1939

US COAST GUARD CGC Stratton U.S. Coast Guard photograph

Hurricane Isabel pounds the shore of Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia (VA)

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

A Mine Clearing Line Charge, or MICLIC, is fired on a range during a training session. The MICLIC is a rocket propelled line charged capable of breaching obstacles, walls, or minefields. The MICLIC has a 350 foot line charge secured by a 205 foot arresting cable. The line charge contains 1840 pounds of C-4 explosives

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No School yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Marines from Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU SOC) armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles and a Saco 7.72 mm M60 gereral purpose machine gun, ride in a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVE) enroute to secure the Ba'th Party Headquarters building in Qalat Sukar, Iraq

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australia safety film negatives australia plains year one year aid australian sheep australian sheep wool replacement uniforms replacement uniforms american soldiers american soldiers nurses space munitions supplies roles two roles war effort war effort hundreds thousands pounds mutton australian mutton mess 1940 s 40 s united states history library of congress