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Mitchell Field. Air force tractor crew attach a towing link between a bomber and an airdrome tractor. The crew and tractor can handle the largest aircraft

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Mitchell Field. Air force tractor crew attach a towing link between a bomber and an airdrome tractor. The crew and tractor can handle the largest aircraft

Mitchell Field. An airdrome tractor and its capable crew have no difficulty moving the largest aircraft

Mitchell Field. An airdrome tractor and its capable crew have no difficulty moving the largest aircraft

Mitchell Field. An airdrome tractor and its capable crew have no difficulty moving the largest aircraft

Mitchell Field. An airdrome tractor and its capable crew have no difficulty moving the largest aircraft

Mitchell Field. An airdrome tractor and its capable crew have no difficulty moving the largest aircraft

Mitchell Field. "Plumbing system" of a fighting plane. The rear end of an air-cooled aviation engine with cowling removed, showing fuel lines, ignition leads, instrument leads and other intimate portions of the anatomy of a mighty flying power plant

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. There's plenty of traffic on the runways of a bombardment squadron base. A plane taxis in after landing at Langley Field, Virginia. In the foreground is a giant YB-17 bomber with the transparent gunner's port and two of the four powerful engines showing

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of one of our new bombers. He, his gun and his plane are typical of the personnel and equipment that have gained world respect for the American Air Force

Mitchell Field. Air force tractor crew attach a towing link between a bomber and an airdrome tractor. The crew and tractor can handle the largest aircraft

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

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 41, frame 89.

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new york long island mitchel field safety film negatives lot 1968 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo air force tractor crew airdrome tractor tractor mitchell field crew office of war information farm security administration bomber united states history home front wwii world war 2 library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw materials from which small pieces, cut to size, are obtained for production of precision parts for Uncle Sam's machine gun squads. Site of these operations is an Eastern factory which has been converted from manufacture of oil burners to production of war essentials. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Long Island Lighting Co. Cable being set up

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

[The crew of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Asar-i Tevfik] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Army trucks and other vehicles at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are checked thoroughly, and at regular intervals. Wherever possible, motorized military equipment is maintained in constant tip top shape, instantly ready for strenuous action

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Michigan was the scene of much activity as the drive sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gained headway. The first load dumped here was followed by many others as farmyards yielded tons of old iron and rubber that put money into the pockets of local farmers and much valuable material back into use

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Inside the log cofferdam of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Mitchell Field. The eagle puts foot to earth. An air-crew officer dressed in full combat gear inspects a bomber landing wheel. Part of the retracting mechanism is shown

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

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new york long island mitchel field safety film negatives lot 1968 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo air force tractor crew airdrome tractor tractor mitchell field crew office of war information farm security administration bomber united states history home front wwii world war 2 library of congress