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Students working on airplane motor at civilian pilot training school. Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Civilian pilot training school, returning from practice flight, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex

Corpus Christi, Texas. Mechanics working on the motor of a plane at the Civil Air Patrol base

Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Students repairing plane motor

Instructor and students studying map. Civilian pilot training school. Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex

Instructor explaining operation of parachute to student pilots. Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex

Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Les Bowman, director of civilian pilot training school

Students working on airplane motor at civilian pilot training school. Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

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Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Temp. note: usf34batch3

Film copy on SIS roll 38, frame 395.

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texas tarrant county fort worth safety film negatives lot 46 arthur rothstein photo airplane motor meacham field office of war information farm security administration united states history training school library of congress
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Date

01/01/1942
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Location

fort worth
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A fast friendship developed between these two civil service employees in the assembly and repairs department of the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Instructor and students

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Exact shuttle mock-up at Space Center, Houston, Texas

Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Dawn, Texas. Crossing Texas wheat country along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas and Clovis, New Mexico

Showers for men. Sanitary unit at the migratory labor camp. Sinton, Texas

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lowering half of a locomotive housing onto roller bearings of the driver wheel axle in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad wheel shop

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Standing on the wing is Floyd Helphrey who came from Iowa to join the Navy early in the year. At right is W. Gardner of Illinois who used to be a crane operator

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

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texas tarrant county fort worth safety film negatives lot 46 arthur rothstein photo airplane motor meacham field office of war information farm security administration united states history training school library of congress