Marines using an International Harvester diesel crawler bulldozer to flush out snipers, Namur Island
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Description
View of Marines using International Harvester diesel crawler bulldozer to flush out Japanese snipers on Namur Island in the Marshall Islands during World War II. Label on back: "From International Harvester Division. International Harvester Company, 180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois. JFF-9-20-44. I-1138-HH. Marines 'mopping up' on Namur Island in the Marshalls use their bulldozers to flush Japanese snipers out of debris near the air strip. These International crawler tractors are an active combat weapon, as well as an important piece of construction equipment. Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph." Handwritten on back: "Bulldozers."
Details
- Creator:
- United States. Marines
- Resource ID:
- na032573
- Subject:
- IHC tractors
- Crawler tractors
- Bulldozers
- Namur Island (Marshall Islands)
- World War, 1939-1945
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1944-09-20
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Bulldozers, 86:2
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.