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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida went to school with their men-folk to learn welding and aircraft fabric work in preparation for the De Land million-dollar war contract. Above Mrs. Ruby Shie, left, former nurse with a husband and one child, and Mrs. William Tomlinson, former bookkeeper and secretary with one child, are getting ready for the time when they will take their place on the plant assembly line to turn out fighter planes for the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida went to school with their men-folk to learn welding and aircraft fabric work in preparation for the De Land million-dollar war contract. Above Mrs. Ruby Shie, left, former nurse with a husband and one child, and Mrs. William Tomlinson, former bookkeeper and secretary with one child, are getting ready for the time when they will take their place on the plant assembly line to turn out fighter planes for the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are those above in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia County Vocational School. Left to right are Helen Cook, a former county courthouse clerk with a brother in the army; Ethel Chandler whose husband is an army lieutenant; Martha Adams, former nurse and now a housewife; Fannie Branum, housewife; Mabel McClintock, secretary and daughter of a retired army officer; and Patricia Blair, a housewife with a brother in the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of Lake Helen, Florida, worked in the county courthouse before Pearl Harbor with a wife and baby to support. Now he's deep in the war effort, welding aircraft. He is shown going through the De Land Vocational School. Opposite him is Mrs. Mary Owens, housewife and mother of three children, who developed into a first class aircraft welder in the school

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Volusia County, Florida Vocational School, believes women make just as good welders as men. He is shown here with a new class starting in aircraft welding, part of the training program of the De Land pool to provide workers for war production. Left to right are Jane Parker, whose husband already is a war welder and plans to volunteer for the Navy when she can take his place; Kathleen Nowlin, stenographer, an English girl who is a naturalized American citizen; and Sybil Meyers, a housewife

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit buyer and a carpenter, both over fifty, now doing aircraft welding which is passing army inspectors without a single rejection. Typical of the men of De Land who went into war production are John W. Smith, left, fifty-two, with five children and three granddaughters; and Lape Fridell, right, fifty-six, with three children. They are learning their new trade in the De Land welding school, before going to work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are those above in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia County Vocational School. Left to right are Helen Cook, a former county courthouse clerk with a brother in the army; Ethel Chandler whose husband is an army lieutenant; Martha Adams, former nurse and now a housewife; Fannie Branum, housewife; Mabel McClintock, secretary and daughter of a retired army officer; and Patricia Blair, a housewife with a brother in the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School, guides the hands of Marie Myers in the first steps of becoming an aircraft welder. Marie was a high school student taking a business course, when she gave it up for defense training entitling her to a high school diploma. She has two brothers in the Army

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

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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

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Chaudoin Hall, John B. Stetson University, De Land, Fla

A black and white photo of two women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Son of white migrant eating lunch of blackberry pie along the highway east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. NYA (National Youth Administration) students who live in the regular school dormitory looking at class schedule

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Dorothy Conger, whose husband is in the Army, inspecting 105 mm. howitzers in the Chain Belt Company plant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Thousands of feet of insulated conductor wire that go into a North American B-25 bomber are sorted by this woman employee in the electrical assembly department at Inglewood, California. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Two women standing at a counter in a store. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

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florida volusia county de land film negatives lot 2102 howard r hollem united states office of war information photo son war production line grandmothers mrs navy ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration us navy library of congress wwii wwii photographs