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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Ignition harnesses ready for assembly in Pratt and Whitney airplane engines form an interesting pattern on the racks of a large Eastern plant working steadily at the important job of powering the planes of our armed forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Location

connecticut

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Source

Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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Public Domain