The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Shorpy Home Front Photos: Higgins Boats and Copper Mines

MAY 26, 2014,  ARC STORY: 1942--  July 1942:  "An electric arc welder at a large Southern boatyard examines a bead he has just run on a steel ramp boat which will be used in military beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores, Higgins Industries, New Orleans."  By Howard Hollem, OWI.

The famous Higgins Boats so often used in the war and especially at D-Day.

MAY 22, 2014,  BINGHAM MINE: 1942--  November 1942.  "Utah Copper-- Bingham Mine.  Part of the open-pit workings f the Utah Copper Company at Bingham Canyon, Utah.  The steam locomotive is bringing empty cars from the Utah Copper mills at Magna and Arthur."  By Andreas Feininger, OWI

MAY 21, 2014,  WAR MACHINE: 1942--  November 1942.  "Floatation machine at one of the copper concentrations of the Utah Copper Company.  Its plants at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes."  By Andreas Feininger, OWI.

Reasons for Eventual U.S. Victory.  --GreGen

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