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Detroit, Michigan. Milling machine at the Allison Motors plant

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One of the girls of Vilter [Manufacturing] Co. filing small gun parts, Milwaukee, Wisc. One brother in Coast Guard, one going to Army.

[Spinner] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

A man working on a piece of pottery. Office of War Information Photograph

He's preparing rollers for a bogy assembly for a halftrac scout car produced, with many more like it, by a Midwest truck manufacturer. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Negro working on machine in cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas

Detroit, Michigan. Drill press operator at the Allison Motors plant

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the twenty-five cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105 mm. howitzer in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company. Her son is in the Army; her husband and daughter are in war work

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Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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Detroit, Michigan. Milling machine at the Allison Motors plant

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01/01/1942
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Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
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Detroit (Mich.) ,  42.33139, -83.04583
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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A couple of men standing next to each other. World War Two Era FSA/OWI Photograph.

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal,in Detroit,turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks. This pair is attaching a hinge plate to the cupola of a gun turret which will be set on one of these rolling arsenals

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the south Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men -- and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Conversion. Automobile industry. To convert automobile assembly plants into war production plants, much of the old machinery must be removed. This workman, perched high, is helping to speed the changeover by removing an overhead conveyor. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

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