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The cavern: and lot unloading. A British amphibious craft, devourer of men, trucks, and baggage, receives newly arrived members of an American tank unit to take them from Oran to their assigned bases
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Credit lineThe cavern: and lot unloading. A British amphibious craft, devourer of men, trucks, and baggage, receives newly arrived members of an American tank unit to take them from Oran to their assigned bases. 1940-01-01. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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