A soldier of the home front saves all waste fats and greases so that they can be processed into ammunition for America's soldiers of the battlefronts.
- Date
- c. 1942
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,262 × 3,000 pixels
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