Caterpillar D-8 tractor towing sleds of fuel ashore, Kwajalein Island
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Description
View of Caterpillar D-8 tractor towing two sleds of fuel from landing craft to shore at Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands during World War II. Stamped on back: "Signal Corps photo. Please credit. Released for publication by Bureau of Public Relations, War Department." Label on back: "Across the offshore coral reef at Kwajalein Island, a D-8 tractor tows two sleds from a landing craft to shore. Sleds, loaded with fuel, sit one on top of the other." Handwritten on back: "Bulldozers."
Details
- Creator:
- United States. Army. Signal Corps
- Resource ID:
- na032581
- Subject:
- Caterpillar tractors
- Sleds
- Fuel--Transportation
- Landing craft
- World War, 1939-1945
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- 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.