Filling the Arsenals
Cartridge cases are piling up by the thousands in the Army's arsenals. These have just come out of production at the Frankford Arsenal Philadelphia. National Defense Advisory Commission
- Date
- 1942
- Photographer / author
- photo by Palmer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 6,124 × 7,601 pixels
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