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| title: | IU students sorting ammunition shells at Crane |
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| image number: | P0054053 |
| description: | This image appears on page 9 of the March 1944 Indiana Alumni Magazine. The caption reads, in part: "As each American war vessel completes a mission, it dumps into waiting cargo vessels used shells...which finds its way to Crane Naval Ammunition Depot. It must be sorted and refilled...Hundreds of University students...are arising before dawn on Saturdays and Sundays to go to Crane by bus to sort this material and keep the shell filling lines moving..." |
| date taken: | 1944 February 19 |
| photographer studio: | Navy, U. S. - Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane, Indiana |
| donor image number: | 735.12 (Negative number); 182 (Photo file number) |
| accession number: | 2007/033 |
| copyright owner: | None |
| corporate name: | Crane Division, Naval Surface War Division |
| corporate name: | Crane Naval Ammunition Depot |
| corporate name: | Crane, Naval Support Activity |
| topic: | World War II |
| topic: | Ammunition |
| topic: | War work |
| topic: | Women |
| topic: | Ammunition dumps |
| city: | Crane |
| state: | Indiana |
| series: | Groups |
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