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Description: | Concept: empire / commonwealth, military personnel, civilian personnel, propaganda, aircraft, shipping, industry, workers, uniform, motor vehicles, weapons, artillery, railways, politicians, military training, military vehicles Description: whole: the 14 images occupy the majority. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge and in the upper centre, in green. The text is separate and placed in the upper centre and beneath each image as a caption, also in green. All set against a white background. image: a series of photographs illustrating different aspects of the American war effort, including depictions of military vehicles, military personnel and civilian war workers. text: H.6445-D.9753-775-12.2.43. THE WAR IN PICTURES UNITED STATES AT WAR LARGEST SEAPLANE IN THE WORLD - 'JEEP' CROSSES A RIVER - ARMY RAILWAY BUILDERS - RUBBER GOES TO WAR - ANOTHER FREIGHTER LAUNCHED TO STRENGTHEN SEA LIFELINE - MEXICO JOINS THE UNITED NATIONS - A.A. GUNS GUARD PACIFIC COAST. The largest seaplane in the world - the United States sky battleship, the Mars - on its flight. It is powered by four 2,000-horsepower motors, is 117 feet long and has a wingspread of 200 feet. Here is seen the United States Navy's new Sea Ranger, a long-range flying-boat, in a take-off for a test flight. A 'jeep' with a tarpaulin pulled up around the machine to keep it dry, crosses a river. The soldiers swimming alongside provide the motive power and also steer it. A photographer of the United States Army Air Force, responsible for recording the activities of the airmen, must also be a master of his aircraft. In this composite picture a photographer draws a bead on a group of planes flying high above the clouds. Engineers of the U.S. Army inspect a new bridge which they built as part of a railway. Rubber goes to war: These sturdy tracks will soon be part of the running gear of the United States Army halftrac trucks, now thundering into the firing line by the hundreds. The rubber treads are mounted on tough steel bands. At a United States war factory a workman puts the finishing touches on an air-driven turbine of a type used in the manufacture of propulsion equipment for the United States Navy. Every army must maintain its communications system in order to obtain supplies, particularly in an offensive. This picture shows troops of the U.S. Army laying a 48-mile railroad between two Army camps. While waiting to be sent to one of the fighting fronts where the United Nations are carrying the war against the Axis, light tanks of the United States Army do intensive training. A 12,000-ton freighter being launched at a United States shipyard. Here is one of the United States' new aeroplane factories, the locations of which are a carefully guarded secret. This one is turning out twin-engined Curtiss AT-9 trainers. A new lifeboat for United States pilots. After landing in the water, the boat is inflated by turning a valve in the gas cylinder seen on the left. Additional pressure may be obtained by use of the bellows pump. Mexico joins the Allies in the war against the Axis. President Manuel Avila Camacho confers with his Cabinet after deciding to ask Congress for a formal declaration of war. An anti-aircraft gun on the Pacific Coast of the United States seen firing at a target towed by an aircraft. Gun crews on this and all United States coasts are constantly on the alert. Picture Sheet No. 35 Issued by the Information Office, P.O. Box 1150, Salisbury. Object: ship, lifeboat, life jacket, tank, artillery piece, jeep, aircraft, camera, turbine, railway track, bridge | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Publisher/Sponsor: Information Office Associated Person: Camacho, Manuel Avila | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5120... | Go to resource |
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