Caterpillar D7 diesel tractor clearing rubble during bridge rebuilding, Sicily
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Description
View of U.S. Army Engineer troops rebuilding a bridge in Sicily during World War II. Caterpillar diesel D7 tractor with LaPlant-Choate bulldozer clears rubble in foreground. Label on back: "Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Il. Rec'd from Road and streets. Their letter, 3-8-44. Model, D7. Description of work, U.S. Army Engineer troop rebuilding a bridge in Sicily. 'Caterpillar' diesel D7 tractor with LaPlant-Choate bulldozer cleaning up rubble. Pneumatic drills at work preparing to blast old masonry." Handwritten on back: "Bulldozers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na032566
- Subject:
- Caterpillar tractors
- Bulldozers
- Bridges--Design and construction--Italy--Sicily
- World War, 1939-1945
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1944
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 6 x 7.5 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Bulldozers, 86:2
- Negative Number:
- 44319
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.