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Polishing up a big one. Worker in a large eastern arsenal smoothing off one of the many big guns Uncle Sam needs for the war against the Axis
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Credit linePolishing up a big one. Worker in a large eastern arsenal smoothing off one of the many big guns Uncle Sam needs for the war against the Axis. 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Palmer, Alfred T.. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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