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American lend-lease equipment is playing a vital part in the development of United Nations mechanized forces. Here, an American light tank, to be used for training Australia's armored crews, is unloaded at an Australian port

American lend-lease equipment is playing a vital part in the developme...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lend-lease to Britain. Telephone coils, part of a shipment of lend-lease materials shipped to England by the United States, are unpacked at an ordnance depot in the Midlands

Lend-lease to Britain. Telephone coils, part of a shipment of lend-lea...

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Reciprocal aid. New ten-story hospital "somewhere in Australia" which the government of Australia has provided under reciprocal lend-lease, without payment by the United States, for care of American troops recuperating from illness and wounds

Reciprocal aid. New ten-story hospital "somewhere in Australia" which ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 155 mm. shells shipped from the United States as lend-lease, are stacked in an ammunition dump hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below the surface in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 155 mm. shells shipped from the U...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lend-lease to Britain. Spare parts of an American-made motorcycle shipped to England as lend-lease are unpacked at an ordnance depot

Lend-lease to Britain. Spare parts of an American-made motorcycle ship...

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The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, meets with WWII veterans during the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease memorial ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Aug. 27, 2006. The memorial commemorates Russian and American aviators and support personnel that ferried more than 8,000 American-built airplanes through Great Falls Montana through Fairbanks for transfer to Russia during World War II. (DoD photo by STAFF SGT. D. Myles Cullen) (Released)

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, meets wit...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fairbanks State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT D. Myles Cullen, USAF Release Status: Released ... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. English girls, members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service move armfuls of American rifles just arrived from the United States under lend-lease

Lend-Lease to Britain. English girls, members of the Auxiliary Territo...

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Lend-lease shipments from the United States

Lend-lease shipments from the United States

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Lend-Lease to Britain. American-built 155 mm. howitzers shipped to England as lend-lease reach an ordnance depot on their way to action

Lend-Lease to Britain. American-built 155 mm. howitzers shipped to Eng...

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Reciprocal aid. Broad verandas are a feature of a new 3,000,000 dollar hospital building "somewhere in Australia" which government of Australia has provided without payment for recuperating American soldiers, sailors and marines, under reciprocal lend-lease

Reciprocal aid. Broad verandas are a feature of a new 3,000,000 dollar...

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Lend-lease to Britain. A "Whirlwind" radial airplane engine on test after assembly at an English ordnance depot, part of a shipment of lend-lease material shipped by the United States

Lend-lease to Britain. A "Whirlwind" radial airplane engine on test af...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reciprocal aid. American soldiers, sailors, and marines, recuperating from wounds and illness on roof of a new 3 million dollae hospital which government of Australia, without cost to the United States has provided for our forces, "somewhere in Australia." Huge red cross identifies building for passing airplanes. Hospital is one of many facilities given the United States by Australia as reciprocal lend-lease

Reciprocal aid. American soldiers, sailors, and marines, recuperating ...

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Ambulances for lend-lease. Red Cross ambulances lined up on a freighter bound for Allied frontiers. They are being sent to the United Nations under lend-lease contracts

Ambulances for lend-lease. Red Cross ambulances lined up on a freighte...

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Reciprocal aid. New ten-story hospital "somewhere in Australia" which the government of Australia has provided under reciprocal lend-lease, without payment by the United States, for care of American troops recuperating from illness and wounds

Reciprocal aid. New ten-story hospital "somewhere in Australia" which ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. A shipment of 155 mm. howitzers just arrived from the United States under lend-lease is prepared for service at an ordnance depot in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. A shipment of 155 mm. howitzers just arrived fr...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. A "Whirlwind" radial airplane engine shipped by the United States as lend-lease is assembled at an ordnance depot in the English Midlands

Lend-Lease to Britain. A "Whirlwind" radial airplane engine shipped by...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel one hundred feet underground dug out of solid rock in western England. The staff here works twenty-four hours a day handling Lend-Lease materials arriving from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United S...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Aerial bombs of 250 tons shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in a dump hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below the surface in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. Aerial bombs of 250 tons shipped from the Unite...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. In an ammunition dump in England, hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below surface, a shipment of 30-caliber tracer ammunition shipped from the United States as lend-lease is stacked by English workmen

Lend-Lease to Britain. In an ammunition dump in England, hewn from sol...

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Lend-lease in action. American M-3 tanks, "General Grants," are in action in Africa and are preparing for battle in Australia. The picture shows an M-3 tank, lend-leased to the United Nations, being hoisted aboard a cargo vessel at an unnamed American port

Lend-lease in action. American M-3 tanks, "General Grants," are in act...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 155 mm. shells shipped from the United States as lend-lease are stacked in an ammunition dump hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below the surface in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 155 mm. shells shipped from the U...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Radio outfits shipped from the United States under lend-lease arrive at an ordnance depot in England. They include reception sets spare valves and (on shelf) American tank radio sets

Lend-Lease to Britain. Radio outfits shipped from the United States un...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel one hundred feet underground dug out of solid rock in western England. The staff here works twenty-four hours a day handling Lend-Lease materials arriving from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United S...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: British official photo; BH 11629.. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Ove... More

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the p...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lend-Lease to Britain. Shipment of 75 mm. guns from the United States as part of a lend-lease shipment reaches an ordnance depot in the English Midlands and are prepared for service

Lend-Lease to Britain. Shipment of 75 mm. guns from the United States ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. An American-made searchlight, shipped from the United States to England as lend-lease, is unpacked at an ordnance depot on its way to service

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American-made searchlight, shipped from the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the p...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 th...

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Reciprocal aid. American nurses and officers enjoy themselves in nurses' quarters of a new 3,000,000 dollar hospital "somewhere in Australia" which government of Australia has provided, without payment by the United States, for American servicemen recuperating from wounds and illness. Hospital is one of many Australian contributions under reciprocal lend-lease. Left to right: Miss Bertha Only, Middletown, New York; Major James Hipple, Pierre, South Dakota; Lieutenant R.A. Pearson, Jr., Raleigh, North Carolina; Miss Genevieve Kusek, Danvers, Massachusetts; Captain T.F. Connolly, Sacramento, California; Lieutenant Ray Loper, Cleveland, Oklahoma; Miss Julia Owens, Columbus, Georgia; Lieutenant Edward Ferreri, Connorsville, Indiana; Miss Sera Clifton, Harrington, Delaware

Reciprocal aid. American nurses and officers enjoy themselves in nurse...

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Lend-lease to Britain. Cases of American spare parts arriving at an English ordnance center as part of a lend-lease shipment from the United States are moved to the stores for unloading. English girls, driving trucks, help with the task

Lend-lease to Britain. Cases of American spare parts arriving at an En...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 38-caliber revolvers shipped to England from the United States under lend-lease are unpacked at an English ordnance depot

Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 38-caliber revolvers shipped to E...

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Lend-lease share of 1942 food supply. A graphic chart issued by the Office of War Information (OWI) showing the percentages of domestic supply of principal foods absorbed by lend-lease shipments

Lend-lease share of 1942 food supply. A graphic chart issued by the Of...

Lend-lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gun powder shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel one hundred feet underground dug out of solid rock, in western England. The staff here works twenty-four hours a day handling lend-lease materials arriving from the United States

Lend-lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gun powder shipped from the United...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. English workmen handle a case of motor equipment arriving from the United States under lend-lease, at an unpacking bay of an ordnance depot in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. English workmen handle a case of motor equipmen...

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How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. A lend-lease tank coming over the side of a cargo ship in a United States Atlantic Coast port. Many tanks are carried as deck-load

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. A lend-lease tank coming over the ...

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Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years we have simply thrown things out when we were through with them, without a thought that they might be reused. Here on this garbage scow carrying rubbish for disposal is a huge stock of waste paper, so vitally needed today for conversion into packing paper for defense and lend-lease products

Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years w...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lend-Lease to Britain. Shipment of machine tools shipped from the United States as lend-lease arrive at a central ordnance depot in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. Shipment of machine tools shipped from the Unit...

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The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld (center), U.S. Secretary of Defense, Senator Ted Stevens (left), (R-Alaska), and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov (right), wait for the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease memorial ceremony to begin at Fairbanks, Alaska on Aug. 27, 2006. The memorial commemorates Russian and American aviators and support personnel that ferried more than 8,000 American-built airplanes through Great Falls Montana through Fairbanks for transfer to Russia during World War II. (DoD photo by STAFF SGT. D. Myles Cullen) (Released)

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld (center), U.S. Secretary of Defense, ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fairbanks State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT D. Myles Cullen, USAF Release Status: Released ... More

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, speaks during the dedication ceremony of the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease sculpture at Fairbanks Alaska, on Aug. 27, 2006. The memorial commemorates Russian and American aviators and support personnel that ferried more than 8,000 American-built airplanes through Great Falls Montana through Fairbanks for transfer to Russia during World War II.(DoD PHOTO by STAFF SGT. D. Myles Cullen, USAF) (Released)

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, speaks du...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fairbanks State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT D. Myles Cullen, USAF Release Status: Released ... More

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, meets with WWII veterans during the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease memorial ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Aug. 27, 2006. The memorial commemorates Russian and American aviators and support personnel that ferried more than 8,000 American-built airplanes through Great Falls Montana through Fairbanks for transfer to Russia during World War II.(DoD PHOTO by STAFF SGT. D. Myles Cullen, USAF) (Released)

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, meets wit...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fairbanks State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT D. Myles Cullen, USAF Release Status: Released ... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. American tank transporter, shipped to England under lend-lease goes into service at a central ordnance depot in the English Midlands

Lend-Lease to Britain. American tank transporter, shipped to England u...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lend-lease shipments from the United States. This bow section of an American landing barge will be lifted aboard a waiting freighter for shipment to a United Nations battlefront

Lend-lease shipments from the United States. This bow section of an Am...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. American 1,100-pound bombs to be used by the Royal Air Force are stacked in an ammunition dump in England, after arriving from the United States in a lend-lease shipment. The dump is in a tunnel one hundred feet underground hewn from solid rock

Lend-Lease to Britain. American 1,100-pound bombs to be used by the Ro...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lend-Lease to Britain. Diesel searchlight generator sets, just arrived in England from the United States as part of a lend-lease shipment, are made ready for issue

Lend-Lease to Britain. Diesel searchlight generator sets, just arrived...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing next to a truck - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to a truck - FSA / Office of War Informat...

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 availabl... More

One year of reciprocal aid. Practically everything needed by our forces in Britain is supplied by the British government under reciprocal lend-lease. American soldiers here use British made guns and ammunition in training to defend U.S. bomber- fighter and aircraft repair bases in Great Britain. They are shown here firing British 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns in Britain

One year of reciprocal aid. Practically everything needed by our force...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One year of reciprocal aid. New Zealand butter in making. Our Army has received 2,032,000 pounds of this staple from New Zealand, under reciprocal lend-lease. Most of the food for the U.S. armed forces stationed in New Zealand including 10,279,000 pounds of beef, 4,787,000 pounds of potatoes, 3,320,000 pounds of sugar, 4,053,000 pounds of bacon, ham and pork, 1,721,000 pounds of mutton and 1,407,000 dozens of eggs, have been received under this arrangement

One year of reciprocal aid. New Zealand butter in making. Our Army has...

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Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the p...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other - FSA / Office of War Infor...

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 availabl... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. Tommy-guns arriving in England from the United States under lend-lease are unpacked and checked by an ordnance corporal. The guns arrived complete, ready to be fired

Lend-Lease to Britain. Tommy-guns arriving in England from the United ...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. An American-made machine gun is unpacked and assembled at an ordnance depot in England, having been shipped from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American-made machine gun is unpacked and as...

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Lend-lease to Britain. American-made tommy-guns shipped from the United States as a lend-lease are unpacked and checked for immediate distribution to units at an ordnance depot in England

Lend-lease to Britain. American-made tommy-guns shipped from the Unite...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dignitaries (left to right): Alaska State Senator Gary Wilken (R-Fairbanks); U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska); Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski; U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld; former Alaska State Senator John Binkley; and Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov, cut the ribbon dedicating the memorial to the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease Program in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Aug. 27, 2006. This memorial honors the American aviators and support troops who flew more than 5,000 American-built warplanes from the American midwest to Fairbanks, where Russian pilots then flew them to Siberia during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo by STAFF SGT. D. Myles Cullen) (Released)

Dignitaries (left to right): Alaska State Senator Gary Wilken (R-Fairb...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fairbanks State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT D. Myles Cullen, USAF Release Status: Released ... More

Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years we have simply thrown things out when we were through with them, without a thought that they might be reused. Here on this garbage scow carrying rubbish for disposal is a huge stock of waster paper, so vitally needed today for conversion into the paper packing for defense and lend-lease products

Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years w...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Crates of American radio sets, shipped from the United States as lend-lease arrive at a central ordnance depot in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. Crates of American radio sets, shipped from the...

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The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, meets with WWII veterans during the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease memorial ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Aug. 27, 2006. The memorial commemorates Russian and American aviators and support personnel that ferried more than 8,000 American-built airplanes through Great Falls Montana through Fairbanks for transfer to Russia during World War II. (DoD photo by STAFF SGT. D. Myles Cullen) (Released)

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, meets wit...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fairbanks State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT D. Myles Cullen, USAF Release Status: Released ... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American light tank is unloaded at a central ordnance depot in England, part of a lend-lease shipment from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American light tank is unloaded at a central...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armored military vehicle, tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delivered by a dealer to a large Philadelphia paper mill. There it will be chopped up and combined with water, then pressed into pasteboard packing so vitally needed for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods

Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delive...

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The Army uses "lend-lease" equipment now being used by British armoured forces, is a "white" scout car which has been converted into an ambulance for use with tanks. It has been proven to have a fine cross-country performance

The Army uses "lend-lease" equipment now being used by British armoure...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waste paper. Destined for destruction, this household rubbish heap contains waste paper so badly needed today for conversion into the paper packing in which defense and lend-lease goods are shipped. Paper is one of the materials with which Americans have been most profligate, only now they are beginning to conserve paper along with many other materials long thought of as merely refuse

Waste paper. Destined for destruction, this household rubbish heap con...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. An American light tank is unloaded at a central ordnance depot in England, part of a lend-lease shipment from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American light tank is unloaded at a central...

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A group of men standing in front of a train - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing in front of a train - FSA / Office of War Info...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Meeting first American food ship to arrive under lend-lease to Britain. Right to Left: Kathleen Harriman, Lord Woolton, Minister of Food; Averill Harriman, U.S. lend lease representative; Robert H. Hinkley, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce, watching a consignment of food being lifted from the hold of the ship at a British port

Meeting first American food ship to arrive under lend-lease to Britain...

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Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), and currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease Administrator. Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Minerals and Metals Executive of the Priorities Division. President of Dartmouth College

Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office...

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a plane. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a plane. Office ...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card and print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. ... More

Conference held in the office of the Office of Production Management in Washington, D.C. August 19, 1941. Left to right: John Lord O'Brian, General Counsel, Office of Production Management; Edward R. Stettinius, Director of Priorities, OPM; Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply; William S. Knudsen, Director-General, OPM; W. Averill Harriman, Lend-Lease administrator in London

Conference held in the office of the Office of Production Management i...

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Wash...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting in a jeep. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting in a jeep. Office of War Info...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease administrator

Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, O...

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Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), and currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease Administrator. Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Minerals and Metals Executive of the Priorities Division. President of Dartmouth College

Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office...

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Wash...

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Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), and currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease Administrator. Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Minerals and Metals Executive of the Priorities Division. President of Dartmouth College

Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office...

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Sappers of the Red army in strongly fortified zone near Leningrad

Sappers of the Red army in strongly fortified zone near Leningrad

Photograph shows Russian sappers crossing area through barbed wire barriers near Leningrad during World War II. Title devised from item caption. Original typed caption: Defences of Leningrad: Radio Picture from... More

Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, OPM (Office of Production Management), and currently (Sept. 2, 1941) lend-lease administrator

Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, O...

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Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available to Indian industry by lend-lease, is hauled by Bangali laborers into a munitions factory in India, where skilled native workmen will take over. This piece of equipment will increase the factory's output by two cannons monthly

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available t...

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Indian industry by lend-lease. Finished show and shells are prepared for delivery from an Indian munitions factory. Skilled Indian workmen, using lend-lease machinery, have increased the shell production of this factory twenty-four times over a pre-war year

Indian industry by lend-lease. Finished show and shells are prepared f...

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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carrying ships built under lend-lease at a large New England yard and launched along with two destroyers and one liberty ship at a record breaking mass launching on August 16, 1942

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carr...

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Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are the first official pictures released in the United States of the recent meetings of Premier I.V. Stalin, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain; and W. Averrell Harriman, representing President Roosevelt. The three men met in the middle of August, 1942, at the request of the Soviet leader, and held a series of conversations concerned with the future conduct of the war. Also present was V.M. Molotov, Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The meetings lasted four days. Commandant of the city of Moscow welcomes Churchill while Molotov and other Russian officials look on

Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are...

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How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Parts of this twin-engine plane's wings have been removed before the plane is hoisted aboard a ship being loaded at an Atlantic coast port with American arms for one of the United Nations

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Sonoma County, California. One of the buildings at winery. This vineyard and winery was established by Russian colonists, later was run by the Japanese, is now being operated by naturalized Germans

Sonoma County, California. One of the buildings at winery. This vineya...

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Washington, D.C. The Australian Minister, Lord Halifax, and the New Zealand Minister signing a lend-lease agreement

Washington, D.C. The Australian Minister, Lord Halifax, and the New Ze...

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Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Melvyn Douglas and Paul Robeson backstage

Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Mel...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of American-made automatic rifles shipped from the United States to England as lend-lease are unloaded at the railroad on arrival in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of American-made automatic rifles shipped...

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[Shoulders charging with the American, British, Chinese, Russian, and French flags in the background. Media: charcoal]

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Jerusalem, pans. [i.e., panoramas] with cloud effect from Russian Tower

Jerusalem, pans. [i.e., panoramas] with cloud effect from Russian Towe...

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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Workers leaving docks at a New England shipyard where five British cargo-carrying ships built under lend-lease were christened at a mass launching on August 16, 1942

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Workers leaving docks at a New Engl...

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Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and President Roosevelt. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., lend-lease Administrator, discusses the Seventh lend-lease Report which he has just handed to the President for transmittal to congress. The report showed that lend-lease aid had increased more than a third in the last three months and was now being provided at the rate of $10,000,000,000 a year

Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and President Roosevelt. Edward R. Stettiniu...

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The uniforms are different but the cause is the same. Officers of the United Nations attend a garden party of the United Nations Club at Dumbarton Oaks, Sunday, September 6th, 1942. Left to right: Major Barayev, Assistant Military Attache, Russian Embassy; Major Reginald Williams, Military Attache, British Embassy; Major David Li, China Defense Supply

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory" pulls up a sizeable haul of fish. Almost all of this catch will be filleted and frozen for military and lend-lease shipment. Of the total packs in the United States, 60 percent of the salmon and 80 percent of the sardine and mackerel are consumed by the armed forces here and abroad

Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory" pulls up a sizeable...

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Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB) has launched a campaign to secure 600,000 used typewriters from business firms and private individuals. These machines are needed by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Board of Economic Warfare, Lend-Lease and other government departments and agencies. John K. Stockham, Washington, D.C. insurance man, turns in one of his typewriters to the government. This is one of the first machines thus enlisted in the war effort

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB)...

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Lagg-3 fighters of the Red air force going into action, 1942-43

Lagg-3 fighters of the Red air force going into action, 1942-43

Photograph shows Russian fighter planes flying in formation during World War II.

William J. Shannon, PhD, assistant professor in chemistry. He is in charge of food chemistry at Iowa State College. He is here working on dried whole eggs used in lend lease shipments. The dried eggs in the beaker are equal to one dozen whole eggs. Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa

William J. Shannon, PhD, assistant professor in chemistry. He is in ch...

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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carrying ships built under lend-lease at a large New England yard and launched along with two destroyers and one liberty ship at a record breaking mass launching on August 16, 1942

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carr...

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Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB) has launched a campaign to secure 600,000 used typewriters from business firms and private individuals. These machines are needed by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Board of Economic Warfare, Lend-Lease and other government departments and agencies. Don MacDonald, Washington, D.C. typewriter dealer, affixes a decalcomania on a machine turned in to the government by John Stockham, Washington, D.C. insurance man. This was one of the first typewriters thus enlisted in the war effort. The decalcomania reads: "Property of U.S. Government - severe penalties for unlawful use"

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB)...

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Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Madame Litvinoff, wife of the Russian Ambassador, backstage with Paul Robeson

Washington, D.C. Russian war anniversary benefit at the Watergate. Mad...

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphate fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro w...

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Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. Men and women workmen putting finishing touches on turrets. All the transparent lucite and metal reinforcement strips used in these turrets were imported under the lend lease program

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plan...

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke, and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available, it is converted into highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A large e...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory" pulls up a sizeable haul of fish. Almost all of this catch will be filleted and frozen for military and lend-lease shipment. Of the total packs in the United States, sixty percent of the salmon and eighty percent of the sardine and macherel are consumed by the armed forces here and abroad

Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory" pulls up a sizeable...

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Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Mrs. Komorosky in her living room. Stove is for heat in winter, Russian style!

Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Mrs. Komorosky in her living room. S...

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