Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance. Mrs. Virginia Young (right), whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the ssembly and repairs department of the naval airbBase at Corpus Christi, Texas. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. There's a war to be won, and Miss Mildred Hanna is helping to win it. After Pearl Harbor, Miss Hanna left school teaching and went to the ssembly and repair department of the naval air base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Here she is working on the firewall of a PBY plane. She is a civil service worker at the base

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Formerly a sociology major at the University of Southern California, Mrs. Elouise J. Ellis (right) now "keeps 'em flyin'" at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. She is a supervisor under civil service in the assembly and repair department. It is her job to maintain morale among the women by helping them to solve housing and other personal problems. With her is Jo Ann Whitington, a National Youth Administration (NYA) trainee at the plant

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance. Mrs. Virginia Young (right), whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the ssembly and repairs department of the naval airbBase at Corpus Christi, Texas. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
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 31, frame 1864.

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