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Mexican girl sewing in their home. Robstown, Texas. Contrary to the prevalent idea, Mexicans generally are extremely neat and clean even when they live in most crowded conditions

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Worker operating a routing machine which uses metal template as a guide to make wood patterns. In the early stage of development wood supplements metal in the construction of a B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber

Starting up the motor of a refrigerator truck at a truck service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue), Washington, D.C.

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

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

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. A mechanic at an Eastern lock and safe manufacturing plant assembles one of the last safe doors to be made there as all plant facilities are converted to the production of bodies for halftrac scout cars. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. A mechanic at an Eastern lock and safe manufacturing plant assembles one of the last safe doors to be made there as all plant facilities are converted to the production of bodies for halftrac scout cars. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

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

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Preparing to install non-leaking gasoline tanks on the chassis of a halftrac scout car. The Eastern plant in which the body is made and installed formerly produced locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Straightening a piece of steel plate that will be used in the production of a body for a halftrac scout car. Great numbers of bodies are turned out in this plant, which formerly made locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

A black and white photo of a military vehicle. Office of War Information Photograph

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Partly finished halftrac scout cars travel along a moving assembly line in a plant converted from the manufacture of safes and locks. The bodies are made in this plant and mounted on chassis produced in a converted automobile plant. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. A partly-finished halftrac scout car body is lowered on a chassis in an Eastern war plant which formerly produced locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. The engine of a halftrac scout car receives final inspection as it leaves the assembly line of the plant in which the body was made and mounted. This plant formerly produced locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

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01/01/1941
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Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam Complex No. 20, Upper Mississippi River, Canton, Lewis County, MO

Good men, good machines, good materials mean good gears for the rear axles of halftrac scout cars now being produced for our Army in an Ohio truck plant. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Halftrac scout cars. When the American assembly line gets down to business, things gets done and done well. The assembling of engines for the Army's new halftrac scout cars is a job well done and understood by the trained men of a large Ohio truck plant. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

The chassis of an Army halftrac scout car get a workout. When this test driver at a large Midwest plant has put the machine through its paces, he'll know if the machine meets the exacting specifications of the Army. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

A coat of paint makes anything look better. But the purpose of spraying the undercarriages of the Army's halftrac scout cars is for protection. The job is part of the production routine on a large order being filled by a Midwest truck manufacturer. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Arlington, Virginia. Auto refinishing plant. Tacking down new top on an old car

Fort Benning. Armored forces peronnel. Sergeant of the armored forces and commanding officer of a halftrac scout car. One of the capable men teaching recruits at Fort Benning, Georgia some of the good American ways of upsetting Japanese schedules

Fort Knox. Halftrac crews. The crews of halftrac armored cars, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are hardy, able men. The Fort Knox school for men of the armored services is teaching many American soldiers how to use mechanized striking equipment to best advantage. Its graduates are now on many of our far-flung battle lines, ready to meet the Axis on more than even terms

At first glance, this scene looks out of place in modernist Marfa, a community known for its art galleries and other art installations, in Presidio County, Texas. But upon close inspection it seems to be making an artistic statement of its own

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling the weapons of Victory. In a factory which formerly manufactured safes and locks, Uncle Sam's armed forces are being provided with thirty-seven-millimeter guns and gun mounts to blast the Axis off the map. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Fort Knox. Halftrac armored cars. The halftrac armored car has many important duties in our modern mechanized army. It is very useful as a carrier of men and equipment, and may be armed in various ways to give it great striking power. This car, in use at Fort Knox, Kentucky, by soldiers of the armored forces, is capable of rapid travel over difficult terrain

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