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Servicemen of various Quartermaster (QM) Service Companies such as the 980th and 569th loading baskets of tin cans into freight car at Camp Atterbury, Indiana during World War II (No. 157 B). This load of flattened tin cans comprised approximately 40,000 pounds sent to mills for "de-tinning" so the salvaged tin could be used to manufacture war materials (from "Camp Crier" newspaper, October 22, 1943, p. 1).
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Image
Format:
Photograph, B&Amp;W Photographic Print
Contributors:
United States. Army. Signal Corps
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Indiana State Library

Record Harvested From

Indiana Memory

Keywords

  1. African American Soldiers
  2. African Americans
  3. Armed Forces
  4. Army Bases
  5. Army Camps
  6. Camp Atterbury (Ind.)
  7. Freight Cars
  8. Men
  9. Military Bases
  10. Military Personnel
  11. Military Training Camps
  12. Military Uniforms
  13. Photographs
  14. Soldiers
  15. Tin Cans
  16. United States
  17. United States. Army
  18. World War, 1939 1945
  19. World Wars

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