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Coast Guard on Hog Island Explosive Loading Pier
- Related Essay
- From Wetland to Urban Land: A Social and Environmental History of Philadelphia’s Tidal Islands
- Street Address
- Hog Island
- Date Created
- June 1 1945
- Description
- Note on back of photo reads: Lower Away! Three 1000-pound bombs are dropped into the hold of a freighter at the Army's Hog Island Explosive Loading Pier in Philadelphia, May 24, while two Coast Guardsmen direct operations.
- Contributing Institution
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 2780 /1917-1945/ Philadelphia- Hog Island)
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