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Fuel Tablet Ration Heating "for use as fuel only" "manufactured by So-Lo Works Inc" "Loweland Ohio"

De heer Van Nus is tien jaar wanneer in 1943 de bommen, bedoeld voor de Fokkerfabrieken, op Amsterdam Noord vallen. Hij is de 17e juli als misdienaar in de Ritakerk aanwezig bij de feestelijke viering van het 25-jarig bestaan van de parochie. Hij beschrijft uitgebreid de kerk en de normale gang van zaken bij vieringen. Na het bombardement rent hij naar huis. De ouderlijke woning is getroffen, maar ...

Bombing raids paralyze German fuel oil plant. These metal storage tanks melted when fires started in the Eurotank-Hamburg fuel oil refinery at Harburg, near Hamburg, Germany, March 9, 1945, after an Allied bombing raid. The Eurotank works supplied Hamburg's power system with fuel oil before Eighth U.S. Air Force and RAF bombers stopped its daily output of 1,500 tons of refined crude oil. The Eurotank ...

Bombing raids paralyze German fuel oil plant. This is a blasted cracking plant of the bombed-out Eurotank-Hamburg fuel oil plant, which once supplied Hamburg's power system with fuel oil. It was paralyzed by Eighth U.S. Air Force and British RAF planes which dropped high explosive and incendiaries and stopped its daily output of 1,500 tons of refined crude oil. Located at Harburg, near Hamburg, the ...

India Pipeline fuels first China-bound convoy. Chicnese and American soldier truck soldiers of the first China-bound convoy watch as one of the trucks is fueled direct from the India pipeline at Myitkyina. The pipeline station fuels a double line of trucks to save time. The convoy rolled into Wanting on the Chicna border on the Burma Road January 28, 1945, just a few days after the last Japanese forces ...

India pipeline fuels China-bound convoy at Myitkyina. Heavy American trucks of the first China-bound convoy over the new Stilwell Road take on gasoline directly from the India pipeline at Myitkyina, Burma. Completion of the pipeline made more plane cargo space available for carrying supplies to China. The new Stilwell Road will mean even more supplies for China, which for almost three years had to ...

Jungle pipeline to carry fuel from India to China. Tall jungle grass, which can cut like a knife if handled incautiously, is another obstacle faced and defeated by the American construction crewmen. Here two of them make their way warily through a section that is higher then their heads. Many of the men were oil workers in civilian life, and all received a six week's course on laying pipelines under ...

Final process in making fuel tanks for U.S. combat planes. Under the careful eye of an inspector, a freshly painted auxiliary tank passes through a tunnel of infra-red drying lights on the final production line of a U.s. war plant. These fuel tanks increase the flying rang of U.S. combat planes many miles. Hung from bomb releases on the plances, the tanks are used only once, and dropped when they are ...