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Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of retirement to operate a lathe to make parts for sweepers in an Eastern shipyard. He returned his last social security check, declaring that the money he made helping win the war was enough for him. Gibbs Cass Company

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Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of retirement to operate a lathe to make parts for sweepers in an Eastern shipyard. He returned his last social security check, declaring that the money he made helping win the war was enough for him. Gibbs Cass Company

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Hollem, Howard R., photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Location

Jacksonville Beach, 30.29469, -81.39314

Google Map of 30.2946859, -81.3931396

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Library of Congress

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