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- Collection: World War II - Fall 2023
Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan
Production. Willow Run Bomber Plant. Experienced Women Workers at the Willow Run Bomber Operate Such Machines as this Rockwell Harness Tester (left). Beginners are Given Such Tasks as Numbering Small Machine Parts (right). Ford Plant, Willow Run
REFUGEES ON BOARD THE ST. LOUISRefugees from Nazi Germany on board the St. Louis en route to Cuba. The passengers were denied entry into Cuba and the US and were forced to return to…
Remember Pearl Harbor - Crush Them!Poster created by a New York based publishing company intended to be propaganda promoting the vengeance that they believed needed to be exacted…
Russian tanks in BessarabiaPhotograph shows a convoy of Russian tanks that have rumbled into Romania during the occupation of Bessarabia.
Daffy Duck explains the importance of donating scrap metal and later fights off a Nazi goat sent by Adolf Hitler to destroy the scrap pile.
Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school.
SHERMAN TANK MOVES DOWN UP A ROAD FOLLOWED BY 2 TON TRUCK, ANOTHER TANK AND THIRD VEHICLE IN ITALY, CIRCA 1944-4599.Photograph. M4 Sherman tank moving up hill on muddy road followed by 2 ton truck filled with GIs. Further down the road another tank and another…
Showcases combat footage from several areas, including the Soviet advance.
The arrival of Jewish refugees from Austria in Shanghai. The refugees are disembarking from the Italian ship "Conte Verde."