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F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. Scaiky welder

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Check and triple check. Final inspection of breach rings for medium caliber guns in an eastern arsenal. Greatest accuracy marks production in the war program

Another batch coming up. Parts for dozens of small guns are checked for accuracy in an eastern arsenal. These are breach rings that will soon be fitted into cannons for the war program

Making accuracy certain. Rifling grooves to speed shells on their way with accuracy are cut in a medium-caliber gun in a large eastern arsenal

Getting ready to aim at what you hit. Careful adjustment of the aiming circle for sighting the target. These precision instruments, as well as ammunition, are made at a large arsenal

Another batch coming up. Parts for dozens of small guns are checked for accuracy in an eastern arsenal. These are breach rings that will soon be fitted into cannons for the war program

Testing for accuracy. Checking the straight-shooting qualities of one of the semi-automatic rifle which play an important role in our war preparation. Note the ejected cartridge flying through the air in the upper right hand corner of the photograph

For the ramparts. A series of medium caliber guns nears completion in an eastern arsenal. Men shown are engaged in the exterior inspection of liners on guns for the war production program

Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech end of a major caliber gun nearing completion in the nation's huge war production program

Rolling em' out. Tubes and liners for medium caliber guns are prepared for finishing operations in an eastern arsenal. The cannons are being rushed for the war program. "All out for defense"

Check and triple check. Final inspection of breach rings for medium caliber guns in an eastern arsenal. Greatest accuracy marks production in the war program

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.

Caption edited by agency.

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 37, frame 102.

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new york albany county watervliet safety film negatives lot 2017 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo medium caliber guns accuracy marks production final inspection breach rings war program office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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label_outline Explore Medium Caliber Guns, Final Inspection, War Program

Harmony Manufacturing Company, Mill Number 3, 100 North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY

Bellevue Hospital. Model laboratory VII

Chapayevsk collective Ukraine, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Collective farmer woman who is manager of the dairy farm checking the quality of the milk

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A skilled jig builder lines up a metal plate prior to cutting it to the correct contour. Employed at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. Comparator

Bellevue Hospital. Model laboratory I

Nurse instructor, left, shows "refresher course" student the new Wagenstein apparatus in use in post operative cases. Retired nurses brush up on latest techniques through this course before again going on active duty

A black and white photo of a group of people in a kitchen. Office of War Information Photograph

Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., a woman is in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane

Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to defend America. It's ours to ensure that defense by a constant supply of guns, ships, tanks and ammunition

Vallejo, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project. Main office in the administration building

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new york albany county watervliet safety film negatives lot 2017 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo medium caliber guns accuracy marks production final inspection breach rings war program office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress