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My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks ...

Petersburg, Virginia. Military telegraph operator, headquarters, Army of the Potomac

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Sheila gets off next. Walt and Jerry, the only two left, are neighbors and live nearby. Jerry lives about 10 1/2 miles from the plant, works six days a week and drives twenty-one miles a day. 6000 miles a year just getting to and from work. All these riders, except Mary, formerly drove their own cars and piled up a daily total of eighty-three miles. This single example of car pooling results in a seventy-five percent reduction of rubber

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Adjusting the seed counting machine at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Adjusting the seed counting machine at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers

Young defense woman. This young woman, trained in a National Youth Administration (NYA) work center, is contributing to defense as the result of skill acquired on the government project. Scene from Women in Defense, Office of War Information (OWI) motion picture which Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote the commentary. In addition to industrial workers the film shows defense activities of women of science and the volunteer services

A woman employee in North American's sheet metal department counter-sinks holes prior to riveting

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Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. A strong seam for a parachute that will see a lot of action is being made as this operator in an Eastern factory does zig-zag stitching with her machine. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. These women sew yards of silk together into flare parachutes, a task which requires just as much care and skill as does working on parachutes that will bear men. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Not taking a tuck in a wedding gown but sewing up a seam of a flare parachute! This is a joining operation in which sixteen panels, or gores, of the parachute are sewn together. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. A strong seam for a parachute that will see a lot of action is being made as this operator in an Eastern factory does zig-zag stitching with her machine. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironing board, this is really a parachute stretched over a glass table, upon which it is subjected to rigid inspection. Electric lights underneath the table show up the slightest imperfection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. These women sew yards of silk together into flare parachutes, a task which requires just as much care and skill as does working on parachutes that will bear men. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironing board, this is really a parachute stretched over a glass table, upon which it is subjected to rigid inspection. Electric lights underneath the table show up the slightest imperfection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Not gowns for a bal, but chutes for a fall are these yards and yards of silk, here being stitched together in an Eastern parachute manufacturing plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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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 149.

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connecticut hartford county manchester safety film negatives lot 2002 william m rittase united states office of war information photo parachute pencil marks pioneer parachute company air force office of war information farm security administration usaf united states history history library of congress
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label_outline Explore Lot 2002, Pioneer Parachute Company, William M Rittase

Miss Ida Lewis, the heroine of Newport

In time of war there is no excuse for carelessness, and it is carelessness that is responsible for the loss of most tire mileage. Running into a curb can mean a break in the tire wall, or at least a weakening. Blowouts are more apt to occur when these sidewalls are in bad condition

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Base Theater, New York Road, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Conversion. Toy factory. Stephanie Cewe and Ann Manemeit, have turned their skill from peacetime production of toy trains to the assembly of parachute flare casings for the armies of democracy. Along with other workers in this Eastern plant, they have turned their skill to the vital needs of the day, and in many cases have seen to it that the machinery they used to use does Uncle Sam's most important work today. Here, they are assembling parachute flare casings, using the same electric screwdrivers they formerly used to assemble the locomotives of toy trains. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Bulldozer grading the grounds of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor, for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C

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

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Cheney Bros., Manchester, Connecticut. Interior V

The court, composed of two American majors and one Royal Air Force squadron leader, which tried Sicilian civilians for starting a riot resulting in the death of several townsfolk

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for R-1340 Wasp planes are inspected in a large Eastern plant now producing a huge number of fine American engines for our fighting air forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

Trailer camp opposite United Aircraft where many Pratt and Whitney workers live with their families, because of housing congestion in and near Hartford, Connecticut

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connecticut hartford county manchester safety film negatives lot 2002 william m rittase united states office of war information photo parachute pencil marks pioneer parachute company air force office of war information farm security administration usaf united states history history library of congress