Civilian protection. This portable electric saw is one the useful tools carred by and powered from the emergency service truck. Here a member of a rescue squad (note the armband) is sawing through a timber to enable him to extricate a bombing victim beneath it

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.
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Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 841.