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US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Kelli England (left), 2nd Civil Engineer Squadron (CES) and AIRMAN Basic (AB) Chase Carulli, 2nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), clean the propeller on a mock up World War Two (WII) P-51D Mustang aircraft as part of a team assigned to clean up the Barksdales Material Heritage on Display at the 8th Air Force Museum, located at Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana (LA)

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Kelli England (left), 2nd...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of construction of telephone lines, roads and buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorperated plant, where the lightest of all metals will be produced for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of construction of telephone lines, roads an...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A giant silo and part of the buildings on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated

Las Vegas, Nevada. A giant silo and part of the buildings on the groun...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A scene in the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds, showing a variety of structures and at the far right of the picture, two of the eighty-four foot silos in which ore is stored for use in the production of magnesium, the lightest of all metals used in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A scene in the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing part of the completed buildings already being used for the production of the lightest of all metals for use in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing. Two workmen are walking in the foreground

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Enormous asbestos mittens are worn by the worker handling the hot magnesium ingots produced at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Enormous asbestos mittens are worn by the worker ha...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A pipe fitter at work at a pipe, or machinist's vise, near one of the 540-foot peat storage buildings at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. A pipe fitter at work at a pipe, or machinist's vis...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated, showing a tool shed and part of two buildings on which construction is going forward rapidly for the production of the lightest of all metals needed for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A rigger and a welder at the Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert pausing for a moment in their work on the gigantic structure

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rigger and a welder at the Basic Magnesium plant ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas storage tanks rest upon the floor of the southern Nevada desert at Basic Magnesium's giant plant, where magnesium is produced

Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas s...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A helmeted welder busy in his part in the completion of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, which will turn out great quantities of this lightest of all metals for aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

Las Vegas, Nevada. A helmeted welder busy in his part in the completio...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Workmen busy with woodwork inside the steel structure of one of the buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant. Much of the plant can be seen in the background, and beyond it loom high mountains

Las Vegas, Nevada. Workmen busy with woodwork inside the steel structu...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage of ore for the manufacture of magnesium, and a peat-storage building on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated

Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas storage tanks rest upon the floor of the southern Nevada desert at Basic Magnesium's giant plant, where magnesium is produced

Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas s...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A worker's wife watering a newly planted lawn around one of the thousand demountable houses built adjacent to the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. A worker's wife watering a newly planted lawn aroun...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A crossroad sign reading "Victory Road," with buildings, storage silos and transmission lines of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the background

Las Vegas, Nevada. A crossroad sign reading "Victory Road," with build...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage of ore for the manufacture of magnesium, on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated

Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Ground being leveled at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing a series of structures in the background where the lightest of all metals will be produced

Las Vegas, Nevada. Ground being leveled at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...

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U.S. Needs Us Strong... Every Day-Eat Some Food From Each of the Basic 7!

U.S. Needs Us Strong... Every Day-Eat Some Food From Each of the Basic...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Workmen, trucks, railroad boxcars, tool sheds, and many buildings during an early construction period of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Workmen, trucks, railroad boxcars, tool sheds, and ...

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Private First Class Norman Diamond of Brooklyn, New York gives a congratulatory pat to "Staff Sergeant Basic" and "Private First Class Adler," who have just received promotions under authority of DL (Dog Land) regulation 0000-900. They are mascots of a U.S. Signal Service company somewhere in India

Private First Class Norman Diamond of Brooklyn, New York gives a congr...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view from a watchtower, showing the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, its 1,000 unit housing development, transmission lines and roads

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view from a watchtower, showing the Basic Magnesi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert. A tower of another building and mountain tops can be seen in the background

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Two peat storage buildings, 540 by 100 feet, on the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds in the southern Nevada desert, which produces great quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft manufacture

Las Vegas, Nevada. Two peat storage buildings, 540 by 100 feet, on the...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene inside one of the huge buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert. Workmen are busy with the steel structure and carpenter work

Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene inside one of the huge buildin...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert. Other workmen can be seen laying reinforcing steel for the concrete floor several stories below

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing at the far right of the picture two of the eighty-four foot silos used for the storage of ore. Great quantities of the lightest of all metals are produced at this plant for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings being constructed at the huge Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings being constructed at the huge Basic Magne...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Smoke pouring from the stacks of the preparation building of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, where magnesium, the lightest of all metals is being produced in great quantities for war use

Las Vegas, Nevada. Smoke pouring from the stacks of the preparation bu...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Interior of one of the buildings under construction at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, where magnesium will be produced and this lightest of all metals made available in great quantities for war use

Las Vegas, Nevada. Interior of one of the buildings under construction...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the construction workers at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, working at the pipe vise. He is working on a building near the peat storage building near which he is standing

Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the construction workers at the Basic Magnes...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Pipe fitters at work alongside of one of the 540-foot peat storage buildings at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Pipe fitters at work alongside of one of the 540-fo...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, showing workmen engaged in the steel structure of one of the chlorination plants

Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Helmeted welders busy in their part in the completion of the Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert, which will turn out great quantities of this lightest of all metals for aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

Las Vegas, Nevada. Helmeted welders busy in their part in the completi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of one of the huge buildings being constructed at Basic Magnesium Incorporated, as seen under a giant concrete mixer

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of one of the huge buildings being construct...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, showing workmen engaged in the steel structure of one of the chlorination plants

Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. The basic townsite office and part of the 1,000 unit housing development on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. The basic townsite office and part of the 1,000 uni...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage building, 540 by 100 feet, a part of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage building, 540 by 100 feet, a part of t...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. The wall of a tool shed showing a shelf with lunch pails and overalls, and a poster reading "THINK. Safety First. Protect Your Fellow Workmen," at the Basic Magnesium incorporated plant under construction in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. The wall of a tool shed showing a shelf with lunch ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Two series of buildings and a road between, filled with construction materials, on the grounds of the huge Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Two series of buildings and a road between, filled ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, showing a peat storage building at the left

Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Piles of steel girders for the construction of refineries at the Basic Magnesium plant

Las Vegas, Nevada. Piles of steel girders for the construction of refi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage buildings, silos for the storage of ore, and other structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage buildings, silos for the storage of or...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated, showing unfinished roads, power lines, telephone lines on which two men are working, and buildings during an early stage of construction

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the steel structure of one of the huge buildings being built at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant which will produce the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the steel structure of one of the huge bu...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Two peat storage buildings, 540 by 100 feet, on the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds in the southern Nevada desert, which produces great quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft manufacture

Las Vegas, Nevada. Two peat storage buildings, 540 by 100 feet, on the...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. One side of a huge peat storage building on the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds in the southern Nevada desert, which produces great quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft manufacture

Las Vegas, Nevada. One side of a huge peat storage building on the Bas...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Stacks of magnesium ingots ready for war use by manufacturers of aircraft and tracer bullets, produced by the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Stacks of magnesium ingots ready for war use by man...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Some completed and also some unfinished buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant. The building at the far right of the picture is still in the steel structure stage

Las Vegas, Nevada. Some completed and also some unfinished buildings o...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage of ore for the manufacture of magnesium at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert. A peat storage building can be seen at the left

Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the construction workers at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, working at the pipe vise. He is working on a building near the peat storage building shown in the background

Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the construction workers at the Basic Magnes...

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Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men handling the thousands of hot magnesium ingots produced daily at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A number of units of this plant are now in production. Full operation is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men h...

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Production. Magnesium. Two enormous reservoirs at the huge Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert, holding fifteen million gallons each, store water piped from a point miles away

Production. Magnesium. Two enormous reservoirs at the huge Basic Magne...

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Production. Magnesium. Workers' cars parked under a section of the high-tension transmission lines which bring electrical power to Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert

Production. Magnesium. Workers' cars parked under a section of the hig...

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Production. Magnesium. High above the Nevada desert workmen lay reinforcing steel for the concrete floor of one of the 360-foot-long chlorination buildings at Basic Magnesium's huge plant near Las Vegas

Production. Magnesium. High above the Nevada desert workmen lay reinfo...

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Production. Magnesium. From many watch towers ever-vigilant guards protect Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A guard here looks out on part of the thousand-unit housing development

Production. Magnesium. From many watch towers ever-vigilant guards pro...

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Production. Magnesium. A helmeted welder is busily engaged in his part of the war effort at Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. The plant is turning out great quantities of magnesium for aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

Production. Magnesium. A helmeted welder is busily engaged in his part...

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Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men handling the thousands of hot magnesium ingots produced daily at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A number of units of this plant are now in production. Full operation is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men h...

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Production. Magnesium. A worker's wife waters the newly planted lawn around one of the 1,000 demountable houses built in the southern Nevada desert adjacent to Basic Magnesium's giant Las Vegas plant

Production. Magnesium. A worker's wife waters the newly planted lawn a...

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Production. Magnesium. Giant silos for the storage of raw materials for the manufacture of magnesium tower eighty-four feet on the southern Nevada desert. They are part of the huge Basic Magnesium plant near Las Vegas

Production. Magnesium. Giant silos for the storage of raw materials fo...

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Production. Magnesium. High above the Nevada desert workmen lay reinforcing steel for the concrete floor of one of the 360-foot-long chlorination buildings at Basic Magnesium's huge plant near Las Vegas

Production. Magnesium. High above the Nevada desert workmen lay reinfo...

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Production. Magnesium. Huge clarifier rakes stretch out like giant arms at Basic Magnesium's plant in the southern Nevada desert. One of the ore storage silos, eighty-four feet high, is in the distance

Production. Magnesium. Huge clarifier rakes stretch out like giant arm...

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Production. Magnesium. Workmen seventy feet above ground are busily engaged in adding to the already gigantic proportions of Basic Magnesium's plant in the southern Nevada desert. A 24-hour production schedule results in turning out great quantities of magnesium for aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

Production. Magnesium. Workmen seventy feet above ground are busily en...

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Production. Magnesium. Like a scene in the Egyptian desert is the preparation area of Basic Magnesium's giant plant now nearing completion in the southern Nevada desert. The pyramidal form of 540 x 100-foot peat storage buildings is reminiscent of the Nile country

Production. Magnesium. Like a scene in the Egyptian desert is the prep...

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Production. Magnesium. A year ago this location was the barren desert of southern Nevada. Today an industrial city teams with the activities of over 12,000 workers as tons of steel and concrete give rise to the giant plant of Basic Magnesium. This exhaust tower, ninety feet high, with a portion of a metal recovery unit, in the background, will soon be adding to the huge production of the plant, which is scheduled for full operation in the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A year ago this location was the barren desert ...

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San Mateo, California. Tying knots is part of training at United States Merchant Marine Cadet Basic school

San Mateo, California. Tying knots is part of training at United State...

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Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightest of all metals, for incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts. Full production is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

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Production. Magnesium. Construction sheds and mountains are landscape features at the present time at Basic Magnesium's thousand-unit housing development near Las Vegas, Nevada

Production. Magnesium. Construction sheds and mountains are landscape ...

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Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightest of all metals, for incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts. Full production is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

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Production. Magnesium. Two men of the plant protection force guard the stacks of vital magnesium produced at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. This lightest of all metals is used in the making of incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts

Production. Magnesium. Two men of the plant protection force guard the...

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Production. Magnesium. Magnesium, ready for war uses. Production of this lightest of all metals, vitally needed in the United Nations' war effort, is increasing daily at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A 24-hour production schedule results in the turning out of thousands of ingots ready for shipment to aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

Production. Magnesium. Magnesium, ready for war uses. Production of th...

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Production. Magnesium. The shadow of a watchtower at the huge Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert points to a water treatment plant in which water piped for miles is conditioned for many uses in the plant and its employee housing development

Production. Magnesium. The shadow of a watchtower at the huge Basic Ma...

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Production. Magnesium. High above the desert workmen speed up the reinforced steel construction of one of the 300-foot-long chlorination buildings at Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert

Production. Magnesium. High above the desert workmen speed up the rein...

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Production. Magnesium. A rigger and a welder at the new Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert look out across the growing impressiveness of the plant they are helping to build

Production. Magnesium. A rigger and a welder at the new Basic Magnesiu...

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Marine officer candidates from The Basic School undergo training in a mockup Southeast Asian village

Marine officer candidates from The Basic School undergo training in a ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Marine Corps Dev&Ec, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Robb Release Status: Released ... More

AS10-31-4671 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

AS10-31-4671 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

The original database describes this as: Description: Oblique view of Basin IX taken during Apollo 10 Mission. Longitude was 140.8 degrees east and Latitude 7.0 degrees north. Sun angle was high. Film magaz... More

AS10-31-4674 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

AS10-31-4674 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

The original database describes this as: Description: Oblique view of Basin IX taken during Apollo 10 Mission. Longitude was 139.8 degrees east and Latitude 7.0 degrees north. Sun angle was high. Film magaz... More

AS10-31-4666 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

AS10-31-4666 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

The original database describes this as: Description: Oblique view of Basin IX taken during Apollo 10 Mission. Longitude was 142.6 degrees east and Latitude 7.0 degrees north. Sun angle was high. Film magaz... More

AS10-31-4667 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

AS10-31-4667 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

The original database describes this as: Description: Oblique view of Basin IX taken during Apollo 10 Mission. Longitude was 142.1 degrees east and Latitude 7.0 degrees north. Sun angle was high. Film magaz... More

AS10-31-4663 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

AS10-31-4663 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

The original database describes this as: Description: Oblique view of Basin IX taken during Apollo 10 Mission. Longitude was 143.8 degrees east and Latitude 7.0 degrees north. Sun angle was high. Film magaz... More

AS10-31-4668 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

AS10-31-4668 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

The original database describes this as: Description: Oblique view of Basin IX taken during Apollo 10 Mission. Longitude was 141.9 degrees east and Latitude 7.0 degrees north. Sun angle was high. Film magaz... More

AS10-31-4673 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

AS10-31-4673 - Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 Mission image - Basic IX

The original database describes this as: Description: Oblique view of Basin IX taken during Apollo 10 Mission. Longitude was 140.1 degrees east and Latitude 7.0 degrees north. Sun angle was high. Film magaz... More

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