Pedestrians emerge from elevated railway cars and walk on platform in New York City during World War II. Pedestrians, including African Americans, emerge from the Interborough Bowling Green Subway Station in front of the New York Custom House and cross Broadway to One Broadway, the International Mercantile Marine Company Building.
Children playing under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City during World War II. Girls and boys playing tag or running, while young boys throw stones into the East River. A cargo ship sails past the children under the Brooklyn Bridge. New York City Manhattan skyline is seen in the background.
Men and women walking in a street in New York City during World War II. Children playing with a dog near a tailor shop. Boy flying a kite on New York residential street. Man walking dog. Young men and women riding bicycles and sitting on grass in Central Park.
Pedestrians, including military personnel, crossing Broadway West 45th Street in Times Square, New York City during World War II Various signs on display in front of the Astor Theater (1537 Broadway, at West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036, USA). One of the signs read “Tyson Theater Tickets”. Astor Theater marquee shows movie “Kismet” (Starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich). Signs advertising products such as Sky Bar and Pepsi Cola on buildings, including Maxwell House coffee with its "Good to the Last Drop" slogan. A pair of soldiers wearing berets with pompoms crosses the street.
Troop carriers drop supplies for troops at war over a lake in Papua New Guinea during World War II . Various material and supplies being prepared for delivery. Wheel barrow parts dropped from planes. The parts are then reassembled for use. Barbed wire dropped with the supplies. Soldiers organize and pack mails for the troops in sacks. Soldiers wrap Gelignite between two sand bags for minimum damage during drops. Rations packed in neatly stacked cartons. Soldiers prepare and pack ammunition for machine guns and mortars, as well as grenades for delivery. A soldier packs medical supplies into boxes. Two soldiers wrap the packed supplies in cloth. Another soldier attaches a parachute to the medical supplies.
March 1943: A map shows Salamaua in Papua New Guinea. An aircraft drops supplies with parachutes over hills. An Australian parachute packing depot. Soldiers pack parachutes on tables in rows. Stacked Australian parachutes to deliver rations, American parachutes used for Ammunition, and 24 foot parachutes for regulation. White parachutes used for medical supplies, blue ones used for rations and red used for ammunition supplies. Aerial view of Goodview, an area of conflict. A soldier radios the requirements to base. Another soldier delivers the plan to the depot. Soldiers pack mortar ammunition. The fuses and sheets are packed together in boxes. Soldiers put boxes into sacks, tie the sacks and attach parachutes. Soldiers pack canned meat: lay straw in big cans, put small cans into those, seal the big cans, secure them with a wiring machine, and attach parachutes. Sacks of rice are put into copper sacks, their mouths tied. Soldiers pack rations including onions, bacon and potatoes for delivery. Supplies are loaded onto trucks and transferred to the aerodrome. (World War II period).
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