Pipelines

Aerial view of the Trans Arab Pipeline from a PAAS Boeing 707 on a flight from Karachi, Pakistan to Paris, France.

Aerial view of two PAAS Boeing 707 engines and the Trans Arab Pipeline from 35,000 feet.

View of pipeline coming up to a river somewhere in Pennsylvania. The far bank was eliminated from the picture on orders from the Army. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.

Portrait of Bert I. Graves, Director for War Emergency Pipelines. Inscribed at bottom: "Ralph K. Davies, Kindest Regards, B Graves, 1/31/45".

Group of men watching first train of tank cars roll toward the East in Norris City, Illinois after the Opening Ceremony. Back row left to right: W.L. Draeger, Chief Engineer, Defense Plant Corporation; W. Alton Jones, President of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; and George A. Hill, Jr., Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Defense Supplies Corporation. Front row from left to right: Major A.N. Horne, Vice President and Assistant General Manager, War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War; Burt E.

Ralph K. Davies (at microphone) presenting citation on behalf of Harold L. Ickes to W. Alton Jones (left foreground). Others in photo from left to right: B.I. Graves, Director, WEP (behind Davies); Davies; unidentified child; Burt E. Hull, WEP, Vice President; George A. Hill, Jr., Executive Vice President, Defense Supply Corp. (behind Hull); and J.R. Parten, Director Transportation Division Petroleum Administration for War (half off the photo). All others unidentified.

Close up view of citation signed by Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War, presented to the great organization of Americans who made the pipeline a reality.

Opening the oil pipelines valves at Norris City, Illinois so oil from Texas can be loaded into railroad tank cars for shipment East. Left to right: Burt E. Hull, Vice President and General Manager, War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; W. Alton Jones, President of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; George A. Hill, Jr., Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Defense Supplies Corporation; and Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War.

Mr. Kephart, NBC announcer (at microphone), addressing radio audience at dedication of the "Big Inch" at Norris City, Illinois. On the left of Kephart is W. Alton Jones, President, WEP (looking at papers). On the right of Kephart is Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War (looking at papers). All others unidentified.

Burt E. Hull (foreground) turns oil into the first tank cars loaded at Norris City, Illinois on February 19, 1943. Other people at unidentified.