5 Signal Corps/press photos massive guns used in WWII

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For your consideration is a fine lot of five large 7 x 9 to 8 x 10 inch US Signal Corps and Acme Newspictures photos of massive guns of various sorts used in WWII. Each photo has a full description on either the front of the back (see photos below for further details) as well as credit wet stamps from the US Signal Corps and Acme Newspictures. These are original 1940s photos snapped, developed and disseminated to news organisations during the war, not later reproductions. They were formerly in thecollection of long-defunct Washington D.C. newspaper, the WashingtonEvening Star. The gentleman I bought these from worked at the newspaper and saved them from the trash when the paper decided to clean house some years after the war. According to him, the newspaper, as well as other local news organisations, received a much wider variety of press/propaganda photos than their counterparts around the country due to their close proximity to the Department of War/War Information in Washington D.C... hence, these and other photographs from this spectacular collection I will list in coming weeks may be quite rare.Condition is excellent. They were taken well care of over the last 62+ years. Please see my other auctions of photos up this week and in the weeks ahead. I have finished selling a little more than half of this remarkable collection, with read more

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