International Harvester diesel crawler tractor with bulldozer pulling landing barge onto beach
Description:
View of Coast Guard using an International Harvester diesel crawler tractor with bulldozer to pull a landing barge onto the beach during World War II. Soldiers and crates in foreground. Label on back: "From International Harvester Division. International Harvester Company, 180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois. JFF-9-20-44. I-1064-HH. This is an example of how Coast Guardsmen shuttle landing craft back and forth from the anchorage to the beach, bringing in fighters and supplies and carrying back the wounded. International diesel tractors with bulldozers have an important part to play in this operation. One of these crawlers is shown in the foreground pulling a landing barge onto the beach. Official Coast Guard photo." Handwritten on back: "Bulldozers."
