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American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. From the ship which brought it to Africa, an American P-40 fighter plane is loaded onto a waiting American truck which will carry it to an airport for uncrating and assembly
1943 Feb. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-008893 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008893 (b&w film neg.) -
American troops on way to Liberia, Africa. The American soldiers shown here on the deck of a transport, composed chiefly of Negro units, are headed for Liberia, African Negro Republic, after the U.S. government entered into an defense agreement with Liberia. Air bases are being established for the protection of the country, which was founded in 1821 by Negro freedmen under the auspices of ...
[between 1940 and 1946] | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE613- D-007230 [P&P] | LC-USE613-D-007230 (b&w film nitrate neg.) -
An Allied airbase somewhere in Nothern Africa. Four American airmen of the Bombardment Group, United States Army, Ninth Air Force, take just enough time out to receive their citations while their bonber is being refueled. They are shown as they lined up beside their B-24 just before General Auby C. Strickland made the awards. Left to right: Lieutenant Lorey H. Woods, pilot, 1381 Worton ...
[between 1942 and 1945] | 1 negative
LC-USW3- 028553-E [P&P] | LC-DIG-fsa-8d29651 (digital file from original neg.) -
President's trip abroad meeting with Churchill. The Tricolor flies again over the Kasbah Mehdia, ancient Portuguese fortress near Port Lyautey, French Morocco, although the fortress capitulated after three days' fighting with American landing forces last November. The portion of the fortress shown above bears the marks of American bombardment. Near this spot, visited by by President Roosevelt's party in North Africa recently, is an ...
1943 Jan. | 1 negative ; | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-008320 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008320 (b&w film neg.) -
American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. Up from the hold of a cargo ship, a precious package is hoisted to the deck of an African port. It is an American fighter plane--a P-40 consigned to U.S. and Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots in the African theatre
1943 Feb. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-008892 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008892 (b&w film neg.) -
One year of reciprocal aid. British sailors and U.S. Rangers share a joke as well as ships. More than thirty troops, transports of the British Merchant Navy, were in the first convoy that swept through the Mediterranean in the invasion of North Africa, in company with American forces under escort of the Royal Navy. American aviators flew British Spitfire planes, in a joint action ...
[between 1940 and 1946] | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-008551 [P&P] LOT 3479 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USE6-D-008551 (b&w film neg.) -
American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. Transferred to a hangar, American Air Force mechanics assemble wings and fuselage of a P-40 fighter plane which will soon go into action in the African theatre
1943 Feb. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-008898 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008898 (b&w film neg.) -
American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. Ready to test out the new ships, called "steam hickens" by the natives, American pilots in Africa wait in outside hut made from a fighter plane packing crate. Snafu means "Situation normal all fouled up." Shown here are: test pilots, A.C. Herman of Pennsylvania; Lieutenant M.W. Carney of Virginia; Lieutenant F.K. Everest of West Virginia; Lieutenant G.R. Werner ...
1943 Feb. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-008901 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008901 (b&w film neg.) -
Planes in flight. The P-40 single-engine fighter plane--which the British have used in its various models as the "Tomahawk," "Kittyhawk" and "Warhawk"--is a fast pursuit ship in the 400-mile-per-hour class. It has an approximate service ceiling of 30,000 feet and a range of about 900 miles. Carrying various combinations of light and heavy caliber guns, it has performed notably with the RAF (Royal Air ...
1943 Mar. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-009488 [P&P] | LC-DIG-fsa-8b08287 (digital file from original) -
Planes in flight. The P-40 single-engine fighter plane--which the British have used in its various models as the "Tomahawk," "Kittyhawk" and "Warhawk"--is a fast pursuit ship in the 400-mile-per-hour class. It has an approximate service ceiling of 30,000 feet and a range of about 900 miles. Carrying various combinations of light and heavy caliber guns, it has performed notably with the RAF (Royal Air ...
1943 Mar. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-009489 [P&P] LOT 799 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USE6-D-009489 (b&w film nitrate neg.) -
Planes in flight. The ship in the foreground is a C-46 transport, originally designed as a commercial plane to carry a crew of five men and thirty-six passengers. Its load capacity in military service has been greatly increased. The more distant plane is a P-40 fighter, distinguished for its effectiveness in middle-altitude work with the RAF (Royal Air Force) in England and Africa, with ...
1943 Mar. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-009490 [P&P] LOT 799 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USE6-D-009490 (b&w film nitrate neg.) -
American wings over Africa. A B-25 medium bomber (foreground) is escorted by a group of A-20 light bombers serving as fighter ships over the North African desert. Their objective was an advance Axis headquarters
1942 Dec. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-007503 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-007503 (b&w film nitrate neg.) -
American wings over Africa. A B-25 medium bomber (foreground) is escorted by a group of A-20 light bombers serving as fighter ships over the North African desert. Their objective was an advance Axis headquarters
1942 Dec. | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-007504 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-007504 (b&w film nitrate neg.) -
President's trip abroad meeting with Churchill. A Presidential wreath decorates an American cemetery in North Africa. Near the entrance to the Kasbah Mehdia, ancient Portuguese fortress near Port Lyautey around which fighting raged for three days when the Americans landed in French Morocco in November, is the "United States of America Military Cemetery", so designated by an entrance signboard in French, English and Arabic. ...
1943 Jan. | 1 negative ; | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-008325 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008325 (b&w film neg.) -
President's trip abroad meeting with Churchill. A Presidential wreath decorates an American cemetery in North Africa. Near the entrance to the Kasbah Mehdia, ancient Portuguese fortress near Port Lyautey around which fighting raged for three days when the Americans landed in French Morocco in November, is the "United States of America Military Cemetery", so designated by an entrance signboard in French, English and Arabic. ...
1943 Jan. | 1 negative ; | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE6- D-008326 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008326 (b&w film neg.) -
American troops in North Africa sample the wares of a fruit vendor. Left to right: Sergeant Hardy Patillo of Austin, Texas; Captain Louis Dubcak of Lexington, Texas; Sergeant Adan Garza of Laredo, Texas; and Private First Class Herbert Lipsey of Dade City, Florida
1942? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW33- 000797-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW33-000797-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
American hero of the African Theatre. Captain George D. Mobbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, recuperating from a sharpnel wound, is shown in Cario as he told how he bagged two German planes in an exciting aerial blitz on Marble Arch airfield then held by the Germans. Mobbs' squadron accounted for seven Messerschmitts
[between 1940 and 1946] | 1 negative | United States. Office of War Information.
LC-USE623- D-007753 [P&P] | LC-USE623-D-007753 (b&w film neg.) -
Washington, D.C. Government charwoman
1942 Aug. | 1 negative :
1 photograph | Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
LC-USF34- 013407-C [P&P] LOT 156 [item] Corresponding print | LC-DIG-fsa-8b14845 (digital file from original neg.) -
Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, with three grandchildren and her adopted daughter
1942 Aug. | 1 negative :
1 photograph | Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
LC-USF34- 013432-C [P&P] LOT 156 [item] Corresponding print | LC-DIG-ppmsca-55830 (digital file from original photograph) -
Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-year-old Annie Tabor as one of their best lathe operators, despite her lack of previous industrial experience. Employed by a large Midwest supercharger plant, this young woman machines parts of aircraft engines. Like many other young Negro girls, she had known only
1942 Oct. | 1 negative ;
1 photograph mounted on board | Rosener, Ann
LC-USE6- D-007013 [P&P] LOT 1982 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-DIG-fsa-8b07728 (digital file from original neg.)
