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Manpower. Americans all. Husky, bright-eyed Joe Gore, Jr., is a young American of Polish descent who is determined that Hitler shall be driven from Poland and kept from America's shores. An expert machine operator, Joe is one of many hundreds of first and second-generation Americans of every possible background and heritage who are turning out medium tanks for Uncle Sam's fighting men in a Midwest tank plant. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Like most of the young workers in a huge Midwest medium-tank plant, Herman Silldorf is an American of foreign-born parents. A skilled machine operator, young Silldorf, whose parents came here from Germany, processes parts for medium tanks with the hope that some day soon he'll be driving one of those tanks, taking a direct (instead of an indirect) slap at the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is much more than just a job to Peter Dykzeul. Born in Holland, this employee of a Midwest tank plant knows the brutality and horror Nazi agression can bring to a freedom-loving people. And he's just one among America's many loyal, foreign-born workers who are pitching in with every ounce of strength to keep the nation free, and to lift the yoke from their native lands. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

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

Manpower. Americans all. Each night, George Voss gives thanks that he is in America. Each day he gives his undivided and complete attention to the work at hand--the processing of parts for America's medium tanks. Employed by a large Midwest tank factory, German-born George Voss is one of many naturalized Americans who are providing the weapons to wipe the Nazis off the earth. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

A black and white photo of a man pouring something into a cup. Office of War Information Photograph

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

Manpower. Americans all. Checo Blanco comes from a long line of Americans, some of whom probably resented those "immigrants" who came over here on the Mayflower. An Apache Indian from the Mescalaro Reservation in Arizona, Blanco is fighting to protect the land of his forefathers from encroachment by the Axis wreckers. He's a skilled machine operator who is processing parts for Uncle Sam's medium tanks in a huge Midwest plant. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Machining medium tank parts in a Midwest plant during most of the daylight hours leaves Joe Gore, Jr., in a quite weary state when evening rolls around. Of Polish-born parents, Joe's home shows vestiges of "old country" influences, but his own personal attic sanctum is solid Americana. Note the Home Bride, and the rocker that any mountain home would welcome. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

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Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are produced by a series of operations that transform a flat brass disc into a case ready for loading with propelling charge and shell. Between each operation there is careful washing to remove all scale and adhesion and to leave surfaces clean for later processing. The big Midwest plant doing the work is well equipped to handle it in stride

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Pietro Cressano worked at the yard for seven months, and was in building construction work before that. He was born in America but both parents were born in Italy

Lunch hour for the workmen in a big Midwest plant where old tires are transformed

Speciale ingannato (ballo) Opera - Performance: Venezia

Gayety at Bal Boheme Washington, D.C., April 10. Favors were distributed to Guests through the medium of false Champagne bottles hung from the ceilings. Guests who failed to get favors when the bottles were poured, decided to get the bottles themselves. This one succeeded. The rest were quickly pulled back up out of harm's way, 4-10-39

Henry W. Bagley, Bellehaven, residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. Main house, attic guest room, south

Parents & son banquet. Y.M.C.A., Jan. 9, 1940

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Loading antiaircraft cartridge cases into a stress-annealing furnace to make them soft, uniform and ductile, ready for succeeding machine operations. The equipment possessed by this big Midwest plant was well suited for producing these cases in large volume

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Inspecting threaded parts

Vice President Al Gore speaks at the 1997 dedication of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Manpower, junior size. What's a home without its sidewalk scrap pile? Junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia see to it that each home has given enough scrap to make the scrap collectors monthly visit worthwhile. When the truck appears, every youngster in the neighborhood pitches in to help load it

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illinois cook county chicago nitrate negatives manpower americans medium tank parts medium tank parts midwest plant midwest plant daylight hours daylight hours joe gore joe gore state rolls polish born parents polish born parents home vestiges country influences attic americana bride home bride rocker mountain mountain home steel company farm security administration united states history library of congress