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' Note To Manufacturers. Auto-Lite offers Industry a War Bond sales plan that really works.... We call it the `Auto-Lite Citation Plan`. For when employes pledge to buy war bonds they recieve an acknowledgment of good citizenship and loyalty to the Nation. This plan has been exceptionally productive for two sound reasons: First. It shows the employee what weapons his investment can buy for the boys ...

American industry moves into reconversion program. Two American workers (upper photo) spot weld bomb fins in the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, in the eastern U.S. state of Pennsylvania, on August 16, 1945, the last day of their war jog, two days after U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced Japan's unconditional surrender. On Augusts 17, on another floor in the same building, ...

United States war production. One man war factory. This man drives a mail truck during the day, makes steering wheel spokes for United Nations, ships at night in the basement of this home Home industry such as this supplements the war products of America's large factories.

How women do men's war jobs. Building Plane Propeller Parts. Girl war workers in the plant of a company which manufactures airplane propellers in the Eastern U.S. state of New Yersey have replaced a like number of men who are now in the U.S. armed forces. The work they are doing on the splitgears of propellers is a type which requires patience, care and thoroughness. Before America entered the war ...

Prisoners unload American coal at Marseille. German prisoners of war at work unloading the 8,000 tons of coal brought to France for the use of French industry on the American libery ship Conrad Kohrs. This ship is one of the 10 liberties arriving every month with fuel for France. It made the crossing in 20 days from the port of Pensacola in Florida.

Prisoners of the Germans may become slaves. Polish soldiers taken prisoners by the Germans photographed at a German prison camp. It is reported that the labour shortage in German industry and agriculture will be relieved by turning prisoners into slaves.

Duisburg Canal in U.S. hands. Overturned boats in the Duisburg Canal form a picture of desolation and chaos at the largest inland port in Europe and the center of the Ruhr heavy industry. Troops of the Ninth U.S. Army reached Duisburg March 27, 1945, during a drive eastward from the Rhine River. Two of the Reich's principal east-west land routes go through the war industry center, which is also a key ...

Blasted German factory. This Nazi war factory near captured Neuss was blasted by Allied bombs and shells of the Ninth U.S. Army. Troops of the Ninth Army cleared the enemy from Neuss March 2, 1945, when they reached the western bank of the Rhine River. Neuss, directly connected with the great manufacturing city of Dusseldorf by road and rail bridges across the Rhine, was a vital German war industry ...

First picture of new Japanese cabinet. This is the first picture of the new Japanese Cabinet formed by Senjuro Hayashi following the ministerial crisis caused by the resination of M. Hirota. Left to Right -seated- Toyotaro Yuki (finance) Premier Senjuro Hayashi, who also holds the Education and Foreign Ministry Posts Tatsunosuki Yamazaki (agriculture and Forestry). -Standing- Takuo Godo (industry and ...

Street impression from today's London. A train of the London tramway, which was surprised by the German Bombers in one of the centres of the war industry. There remained nearly nothing of it. The picture comes frome one of the great New York magazines.

The Battle of Stalingrad. Part of the bitter street fighting which took place in Stalingrad in the Fall and Winter of 1942-43 after Hitler's armies swept over Southern Russia to this center of heavy industry on the Volga. Although the Germans pounded the city to ruins, pushing the Red Army defenders almost into the outskirts, the Russians fought on. Violent battles raged for months as the Russian counter ...

Destroying effects of the German attacks on London. The affliction of the capital of England by wavellike attacks of the German great-bombers destroys quarter by quarter, so far as they are connected with the war and providing industry. Rather helpless the men of the fire-brigade of London are standing here who were sent off to the befalled quarter. Effecting helping and removal of damages but appears ...