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"Land ships" SS Manda and the SS Swatara (in the background), Fort Indiantown Gap Training Center, circa 1942.
flipFlip to Prospective African-American stevedores pose for a photograph while loading cargo, Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Fort Indiantown Gap, PA, circa 1942.
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cargo on ships

Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives

At Fort Indiantown Gap, the Army built a mock wharf and full scale mock-ups of cargo ships where troops could learn how to prepare cargo for overseas battle shipment.

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