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Balloon ascension at Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska.

Greenhills schoolboys with athletic instructor. Ohio

A black and white photo of a field with trees. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

The mouth of Kanab Creek. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Mountain transportation. Pack mule, pack and packers.

Members of a Negro battery somewhere in the Caribbean area getting meteorological information. The balloon is released and is followed by means of instruments to determine the necessary facts prior to the firing of weapons

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01/01/1942
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. 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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Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Dorothy Taylor, bench lathe operator at a large Eastern firearms plant, makes oil drills for .50- caliber machine gun barrels. Many women workers are employed in this plant, producing essential weapons for the armed forces

A poster comes to life. Meet an American soldier of Production. George Woolslayer, thirty-two-years-old, is an experienced welder at one of Allegheny-Ludlum's steel mills. His uniform is a pair of overalls and a welder's mask. Not reveille but a battered alarm clock awakens him six days a week at 6 A.M. There are no service stripes on those welder's sleeves he wears, but his part in the winning of this war is as important as any front-line soldier's. George Woolslayer is out to win the battle of the home front, the battle to keep America's soldiers on the fighting front supplied with the weapons of war. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

New radio meteorograph developed for the U.S. Navy. Washington, D.C., June 9. The National Bureau of Standards has recently developed for the U.S. Navy Meteorological Service a new radio meteorograph. The new instrument (shown in the picture) is sent up on a 5-Foot balloon and is expected to replace the use of airplanes in upper-air meteorological surroundings. E.G. Lapham, Associate Physicist of the bureau, is shown assembling the new meteorograph in preperation for an ascent. The device transmits audio notes which are a function of temperature and humidity. These notes are interrupted at approximately each 10-millibar increment in pressure, thus identifying each temperature and humidity indication with its respective increment of altitude, 6/9/37

Photoelectric ray to determine flying ceiling. Washington, D.C., June 15. To permit a ground observer to determine at what height flying is safe during days of fog and heavy overcast, Miss Elizabeth M. Zandonini, of the Radio Section staff of the Bureau of Standards, is shown with the balloon transmitting equipment. A photoelectric cell measuring light brightness is used to control the pitch of the radio signal transmitted from the balloon as it ascends. A graphical frequency recorder plots the pitch and hence [...] a measure of the light brightness as a function [...] height. The experiments are carried on for the U.S. [...]

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. Nothing makes W.E. Mansfield so mad as the idea that Florida shops cannot do fine precision work. He should know, for he's doing it in a member shop of the De Land pool. He worked on weapons and ammunition for the Winchester Arms Company for twenty years and thought he was retiring when he came to Florida. Now seventy-one, he's turning out delicate precision parts for essential war equipment

Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to fight, ours to give him the weapons to fight with

Machine gunners in the Caribbean area wearing head mosquito nets while on maneuvers

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Thirty-seven-millimeter gun parts go through the thread grinder in a factory now devoted to production of these weapons. The factory has been converted to this production from the manufacture of locks and safes. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

City Pier A, Battery Place at Hudson River, New York, New York County, NY

Aircraft life raft manufacturing. Valve fitting for emergency life raft for military aircraft is applied by balloon room worker with special tools. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Jeep used as a field ambulance by U.S. troops in the Caribbean area. A modified field ambulance, it can be used in an emergency or over rough terrain. This is the first time an army jeep has been used as a field ambulance; no new equipmenr is needed other than that used in the regular field ambulance

Aquarius, Piscis Australis & Ballon Aerostatique / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

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