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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks make a strong medicine against Axis aircraft. Special marine units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina send up part of a tactical formation of barrage balloons that prevent dive bombing and the strafing of important ground installations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks make a strong medicine against Axis aircraft. Special marine units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina send up part of a tactical formation of barrage balloons that prevent dive bombing and the strafing of important ground installations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks make a strong medicine against Axis aircraft. Special marine units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina send up part of a tactical formation of barrage balloons that prevent dive bombing and the strafing of important ground installations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Putting the Indian sign on Axis dive bombers and strafing planes. This barrage balloon, under control of a Marine unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina is part of a plane trap that protects important ground installations. Planes cannot come close to a number of these balloons swaying in tactical formation, with steel cables trailing, without the danger of shearing off wings

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

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Summary

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

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 31, frame 582.

Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.

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south carolina beaufort county parris island safety film negatives lot 1822 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo marine corps barrage balloons marine balloon barrage paris island balloons steel winch lines office of war information farm security administration united states history home front wwii balloon military ballooning blimp world war 2 library of congress
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Date

01/01/1942
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in collections

Armies in World War 2

Photograhs of the largest military conflict in history
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beaufort county
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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label_outline Explore Paris Island, Marine Corps Barrage Balloons, United States Office For Emergency Management

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Sergeant John Fahey Gerrity, former Washington Post reporter, signals to comrades during basic training at the Marine Corps base at Parris Island, South Carolina. Sergeant Gerrity is now serving as a fighting reporter in a combat area for the Division of Public Relations, U.S. Marine Corps

Newport News, Virginia. Electro-welder working on a hatch combing

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Mitchell Field. The eagle puts foot to earth. An air-crew officer dressed in full combat gear inspects a bomber landing wheel. Part of the retracting mechanism is shown

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Fältballong över A 6 övningsfält.

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A bank of wheels and tires for Dodge Army trucks piled up as they arrive at the plant before the assembling process starts

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south carolina beaufort county parris island safety film negatives lot 1822 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo marine corps barrage balloons marine balloon barrage paris island balloons steel winch lines office of war information farm security administration united states history home front wwii balloon military ballooning blimp world war 2 library of congress