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Title: Making Artillery Band Grooves
Date: 1966-11-07
Description: million contract to produce 4,500,000 rounds of the 105-millimeter shells. Target date for production was Jan. 1, 1967, but Chevrolet is already operating the plant at about 18 percent capacity. In machinery building: Hole is put in front of shell; the cavity is cleaned and the nose bored and faced. Next the threads are put in the nose, the base is leveled, and a band groove is made."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - New Parade Grounds
Date: 1900, 1949-11-06
Description: Two original captions: "Jefferson Barracks was proud of its 1895 parade grounds across from the new officers' quarters, which had replaced the 1827 limestone "apartments" on three sides of the old quadrangle. It was here that Col. Walter Krueger marched his Sixth Infantry in review in honor of the Japanese military attache just before handing over command to Col. Walter Short. This was a scant

Title: Women Rule Ammunition Industry
Date: 1964-02-29
Description: "A small arms plant employee handling cartridges which were measured, weighed and selectively tested before being shipped to fighting men overseas. Many women went to work here during World War II."

Title: "Ammunition Plant to Reopen"
Date: 1966-08-23
Description: "This is part of the St. Louis Army Ammunition Plant at 4800 Goodfellow which is being reopened immediately to produce artillery shells for the war in Vietnam. In this building, the forging building at Goodfellow and Highway 70, casings are shaped for 105-millimeter projectiles."

Title: Small Arms Plant View
Date: 1959-08-19
Description: Lateral view of the Small Arms Plant in St. Louis.

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