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Production. Minesweepers. Grandad's doing a grand job. Two grandfathers, both seventy, D.L. Zimbrough and F.M. Webb, work on nearby lathes in an Eastern shipyard now turning out minesweepers for the Navy. The yard has kept up an excellent production by bringing many older workers out of retirement. Gibbs Cass Company

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Production. Minesweepers. Grandad's doing a grand job. Two grandfathers, both seventy, D.L. Zimbrough and F.M. Webb, work on nearby lathes in an Eastern shipyard now turning out minesweepers for the Navy. The yard has kept up an excellent production by bringing many older workers out of retirement. Gibbs Cass Company

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01/01/1942

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Hollem, Howard R., photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Jacksonville Beach, 30.29469, -81.39314

Google Map of 30.2946859, -81.3931396

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