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Unloading vegetables at US camp

US troops unload vegetables at a military camp in Paekākāriki, 26 January 1943.

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    US Forces in New Zealand

Keywords

WW2
paekakariki
american forces
Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/4-000150-F
Photographer: John Pascoe
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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