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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Through the scaffolding may be seen the prow of a battleship under construction. The Norfolk-Newport News section of Virginia is contributing a large portion of the new tonnage of our rapidly expanding two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Through the scaffolding may be seen the prow of a battleship under construction. The Norfolk-Newport News section of Virginia is contributing a large portion of the new tonnage of our rapidly expanding two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Through the scaffolding may be seen the prow of a battleship under construction. The Norfolk-Newport News section of Virginia is contributing a large portion of the new tonnage of our rapidly expanding two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Through the scaffolding may be seen the prow of a battleship under construction. The Norfolk-Newport News section of Virginia is contributing a large portion of the new tonnage of our rapidly expanding two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). A section for a new U.S. Navy cruiser is being delivered by overhead crane to the building ways. Four cruisers and a battleship are under construction here

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Here is a section of the huge building ways, large enough to permit construction of the largest of super-battleships. Construction of these new ways is a major engineering job in itself

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Behind the scaffolding is one of the most powerful ships ever built, the U.S.S. Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1941. This 70 milllion dollar super dreadnought is one of several powerful additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly growing fleet under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard

Shipbuilding (Newport News). In the shadow of the huge building ways. where four cruisers and a battleship for Uncle Sam's growing navy are under construction, lies the ship's plate section. The plates are carried from here to the ways by large overhead cranes

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are the men whose skill is devoted to the building of the finest, most powerful fleet of naval vessels the world has ever seen. They are leaving the gates of the yard after their regular shift

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Through the scaffolding may be seen the prow of a battleship under construction. The Norfolk-Newport News section of Virginia is contributing a large portion of the new tonnage of our rapidly expanding two-ocean Navy

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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

Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 891.

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label_outline Explore Two Ocean Navy, Lot 2067, Newport News

Laying the cornerstone of the northwest pavilion, Library of Congress

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Wings for "Valiant" basic trainers at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority. Insulators and transmission wires in the switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

National D-Day Memorial, Bedford, Virginia

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops and streets maintain unceasing vigilance for fallen incendiary bombs. They immediately seek to control them with equipment stored nearby

Newport News, Virginia. Electro-welder working on a hatch combing

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

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

To Sinai via the desert. Statue of Waghorn at Port Tewfik

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Captain Mary demonstrating the use of the sextant in locating one's position by the stars

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virginia newport news safety film negatives lot 2067 alfred t palmer united states office of war information photo norfolk newport news section two ocean navy office of war information farm security administration navy us navy united states history industrial history library of congress