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Unidentified Civic and Military Leaders at Lake City Arsenal Groundbreaking Ceremonies

2006-294
Accession Number
2006-294
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350376936
Keywords
Armories
Dedications (Monuments, etc.)
Factories
HST Keywords
Lake City Arsenal - Groundbreaking; Missouri - General - Lake City Arsenal
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Description
Breaking ground for the first manufacturing unit of an 18-million-dollar ammunition plant, two men thrust spades into a former flax field on the Lake City Arsenal site in Missouri, while civic and military leaders look on. All are unidentified. Earlier, Senator Harry S. Truman and Mayors Gage and Roger T. Sermon also took their turns at the shovel. (See also 66-6255, 6256, and 6257 and 63-11.) From: L. R. Wills
Date(s)
December 26, 1940