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Joe Kachler measuring stock at his tool box; the tool box and all of the tools are the machinist's; many of Joe's tools are from his father who was also a machinist.

Striking telling blows at the Axis. Each blow of this machine stamps out a cowl for an army jeep from a flat steel sheet under 350 tons prssure. The 126-ton Bliss double-action press is regular equipment of one of the world's largest automobile plants. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

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Two-in-one operation. Boring and tapering the ring for a setter fuze in a large Army arsenal

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Polishing up a big one. Worker in a large eastern arsenal smoothing off one of the many big guns Uncle Sam needs for the war against the Axis

Expert machinist on armaments. Boring and facing a setter fuze in one operation at a large eastern arsenal working full speed for total war

Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech end of a major caliber gun nearing completion in the nation's huge war production program

Polishing up a big one. Worker in a large eastern arsenal smoothing off one of the many big guns Uncle Sam needs for the war against the Axis

Machine that thinks. Turning and boring a quadrant bracket on one of the batteries of machines at a large Army arsenal working full speed for the war program

War work in the groove. A modern rifling machine cutting the grooves in a gun barrel

Two-in-one operation. Boring and tapering the ring for a setter fuze in a large Army arsenal

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ,  39.95258, -75.16522
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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Working on reconditioned gas masks for civilian defense use at the gas mask factory

A black and white photo of a man in a workshop. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Rocky Flats Plant, Plutonium Fabrication, Central section of Plant, Golden, Jefferson County, CO

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

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Bent Furniture Factory in Holon Settlement. Process of bending wood after steaming

A couple of men standing next to each other. World War Two Era FSA/OWI Photograph.

A special drill press cuts a great number of holes simultaneously in casings for engines at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corporation. East Hartford, Connecticut

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

Citizens' Glass Co., Evansville, Ind. Over ten small boys on day shift in one department, were counted. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

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