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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

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

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

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

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Working with skill and precision, these women operate a spot welding machine in the largest single story building in the world, Ford's giant bomber plant at Willow Run, Michigan. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Working with skill and precision, these women operate a spot welding machine in the largest single story building in the world, Ford's giant bomber plant at Willow Run, Michigan. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. One of the many women employed at the giant Willow Run bomber plant operates a drill to bore holes in the "Y" section of a supercharger bracket. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. A small part of the world's largest one-story war production plant, the giant bomber factory at Willow Run, Michigan. Fixtures in background hold bomber wings during assembly. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Steady of eye and hand, women workers at the great Willow Run bomber plant are among those throughout the country who are relieving serious shortages of skilled workers by doing such semi-skilled jobs as the one shown here. She's welding parts of the cooling system direct to the supercharger. Ford plant, Willow Run

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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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

Corresponding print Exhibited: "Men of Steel, Women of Wonder: Modern American Heroes in Contemporary Times" at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, Arkansas 72712, February 9, 2019 - April 22, 2019.

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willow run manufacturing plant world war equipment and supplies michigan willow run women employment welding war work washtenaw county film negatives lot 1990 ann rosener united states office of war information photo willow run bomber plant giant bomber plant ford plant women work ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration library of congress