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Title: Troops Looking Through the Booklet
Date: 1940
Description: Troops looking through a booklet.

Title: American Can Company Plant
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: These specialists at the American Can Company's plant here work on the steel shells which form the airborne tin fish's warheads.

Title: Pointing Symbolically Toward A Single Objective
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: American Can Company's "Amertorp" plant here an inspiring war production setting.

Title: Airborne Torpedo Assembly Line
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: Airborne-type torpedoes move off the assembly line in the St. Louis in the St. Louis Amertorp plant of the American Can Company.

Title: Edward Riehl
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: Oldest employee in the American Can Company's torpedo plant here is Edward Riehl, 77, expert tool maker now helping to turn out vital instruments to hsdten the end of the third war in his experience.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Constructing Frames for Tents
Date: 1941-06, 1941-06
Description: Workmen constructing frames for tents at Jefferson Barracks in June, 1941.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Memorial Day Crowd
Date: 1940-05, 1940-05
Description: "Part of the crowd of 5000 that attended the Memorial Day services at the National Cemetery of Jefferson Barracks yesterday."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Farewell to "Razzle Dazzle" Cast from New York
Date: 1941-11-28, 1941-11-28
Description: Original caption: ""Reversing the Usual Proceeding:" New York, NY: Service men did fond farewell to the charming girls in the cast of "Razzle Dazzle," one of the streamlined musical comedies being sent by U.S.O. - Camp Shows, Inc., to entertain soldiers and sailors in every section of the country. The troupe left Pennsylvania Station tonight (Nov. 28) for Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, first stop on a tour of the "Red, White and Blue Circuit" of 206 army camps and naval stations."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - U.S.O. Dance 1941
Date: 1941
Description: United Service Organizations event at Jefferson Barracks in 1941.

Title: Six Point Program: Multiple Trouble For The Axis
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: This six-spindle multiple drill press being operated by Alice Cariss in the American Can Company's "Amertorp" torpedo plant in St. Louis, is but one of long lines of inanimate giants turning out the 5,000-odd precision parts required to make a single torpedo -- more like a piece of fine jewelry than a deadly weapon of naval warfare.

Title: Guadalcanal Hero Continues Fight On The Home Front
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: Veteran of three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, survivor of two months' combat in the green hell of Guadalcanal, witness of the Japanese destruction at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, A. J. Lang 23 year old St. Louis fighting man didn't allow a medical discharge to knock him out of the war effort.

Title: Backing The Attack!
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: "Heads up!" is the pervading spirit of the several thousand employes helping to maintain dynamic production records in the American Can Company's "Amertorp"toorpedo plant in St. Louis, but not in the case of these specialists who work on the steel shells which form the airbourne tin fish's war-heads.

Title: Testing The Navy's Deadliest Weapons
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: One of the most delicate precision instruments of naval warfare, the airbourne torpedo, with its 5,000 parts and integrated units, must pass scores of rigid tests before the jewel-like finished weapon is approved and turned over to the Navy.

Title: Aimed At The Axis
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: Lined up in orderly array pointing symbolically toward a single objective, crushing defeat of United Nations foes, these finished sections of "Amertorp" plant in St. Louis an inspiring war production setting few civilians ever before have witnessed.

Title: Victory Alley In Midwest Torpedo Plant
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: Known as Victory Alley during the recent Third War Bond Drive, this is one of the busy production thoroughfares in the tool room of the American Can Company's "Amertorp" torpedo plant in St. Louis.

Title: Woman Working
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: This 1943 photo from The Globe-Democrat's files shows a woman working in an American Can Co. Amertorp torpedo plant in St. Louis.

Title: Smoothing The Way To Smashing Navy Victories
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: June Kienzler (above) is one of the expert woman machine oprators in the American Car Company's big Amertorp torpedo plant in St. Louis, which made the first torpedo produced in this war by an industrial manufacturer, and now is turning them out in quantity greater than the combined pre-war output of the nation.

Title: MacArthur Bridge Toll Collection Officer
Date: 1945-09, 1945-09
Description: Officer watches as automobiles drive by on the MacArthur Bridge.

Title: Storehouse Of Death Earmarked For Axis Shipping
Date: 1943-10-31
Description: Racks of ruin Axis enemies at sea, these war-heads for airbourne torpedoes, stacked row on row in the American Can Company's "Amertorp" plant in St. Louis, soon will be parts of complete death-dealing "tin fish" riding in the racks of fighting U.S. Navy torpedo planes.

Title: Torpedoe
Date: 1944-09-03
Description: This is the first picture of one the submarine-type torpedoes now being manufactured at the United States Naval Ordnance Plant operated by the Amertorp Corporation at 3200 South Kinghighway.

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