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The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. [Grape crushers & presses, showing chute bringing grapes down from the unloading platform]

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Master warper Al Zarky at the warping wheel; he is in the process of "making the warp;" this warp has 10,440 "ends" or individual threads.

Meadow River Lumber Company, Highway 60, Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Spot welding parts for the nacelle of an aircraft engine. These women work in the largest one-story building in the works, the giant bomber plant at Willow Run, Michigan. Ford plant, Willow Run

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michigan washtenaw county willow run film negatives production willow run bomber willow run bomber plant spot parts nacelle aircraft engine aircraft engine women work women work giant giant bomber plant ford ford plant bombers 1940s women ford automobile plant ford motor company 1940s 40s workers industrial history 1940 s library of congress ford motor company plant automobile industry
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01/01/1942
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Rosener, Ann, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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label_outline Explore Aircraft Engine, Nacelle, Women Work

Nashville, Tennessee. Women operation a giant stamping machine. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Rags. Collection and processing. A portion of the sorting room in a large Eastern rag processing plant. In this room new rag remnants, consisting chiefly of cuttings received from clothing factories, are sorted. The rags are classified and separated according to the type of cloth; colored rags are graded according to the ease with which they can be bleached. The baskets in back of the women are filled with rags that have been sorted and classified. The women work in teams of two; it takes a team about two hours to sort the rags in one full bale. In another part of the plant, a room of the same size and general appearance as this is used for sorting used rags. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Another B-24E (Liberator) bomber nears completion on one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant. A paint job comes next. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan. Roscoe Smith, superintendent of the Willow Run Ford plant

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A noontime rest for a full- fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background

On the final assembly line at North American Aviation, men and women work together adjusting the controls of P-51 Mustang fighters for the United States Army Air Forces

Detroit, Michigan. Roscoe Smith, superintendent of the Willow Run Ford plant

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. The nose of a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber, just off the assembly line and paint shop at Ford's big Willow Run plant, and now ready for its test flights. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes for Uncle Sam's fighing flyers at a West Coast plant. Here, Mrs. Fern Evans, Pearl Harbor widow, works on a radio bracket for a bomber with a young mechanic. Mrs. Evans, who had no previous mechanical experience when she applied for work in February, now reads blueprints and is able to proceed with various accessory assemblies for bombers with little supervision from leadmen

Liberator (B-24E) bomber. Two Liberator (B-24E) bombers on trial flights near the big Ford Willow Run Plant at which they were produced. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high accuracy bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians

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michigan washtenaw county willow run film negatives production willow run bomber willow run bomber plant spot parts nacelle aircraft engine aircraft engine women work women work giant giant bomber plant ford ford plant bombers 1940s women ford automobile plant ford motor company 1940s 40s workers industrial history 1940 s library of congress ford motor company plant automobile industry