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Scene in a gun plant where the big guns and shells are made, showing in the foreground a sixteen-inch naval gun being gauged after boring
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Scene in a gun plant where the big guns and shells are made, showing in the foreground a sixteen-inch naval gun being gauged after boring

1942 · photo, print, drawing

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Credit lineScene in a gun plant where the big guns and shells are made, showing in the foreground a sixteen-inch naval gun being gauged after boring. 1942. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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