Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. A soldier removing a tack from a United States Army truck tire. Constant fire inspection is required of all drivers at the depot
- Date
- 1943
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 762 × 1,024 pixels
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