Caterpillar diesel D7 tractor with LaPlant-Choate trailbuilder clearing debris, Nantes, France

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Caterpillar diesel D7 tractor with LaPlant-Choate trailbuilder clearing debris, Nantes, France

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View of Caterpillar diesel D7 tractor with LaPlant-Choate trailbuilder clearing debris from street at Nantes, France during World War II. Label on back: "Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Il. Rec'd from War Department, U.S. Engineers, Chicago. Their letter, 11-3-44. Model, D7. Description of work, 'Caterpillar,' diesel D7 tractor with LaPlant-Choate trailbuilder clearing street of debris Nantes, France. Credit: Signal Corps photo." Handwritten on back: "Bulldozers."

Details

Creator:: United States. Army. Signal Corps
Resource ID:: na032563
Subject:: Caterpillar tractors; Bulldozers; Buildings--War damage--France--Nantes; World War, 1939-1945; Automotive Council for War Production--Archives; Photographic prints
Date:: 1944
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Location:: MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Bulldozers, 86:2
Negative Number:: 45380
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.