Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Designing corrugated wood. Aircraft poplar veneer after drying and just before inspection and cutting in a Midwest factory. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Sawmill carriage in a large Midwest veneer plant cuts flitches, or slabs, from an oak log that will be used in making veneer for essential war purposes. The sawyer at the right controls the speed of the carriage and the thickness of the cut. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar veneer is inspected before being made into panels for combat planes. These rotary-cut strips are carefully checked for quality and thickness in a big Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer panels for our combat planes will be made from this half-round log of walnut being withdrawn from the steaming vat of a Midwest factory. Great care must be taken in this vatting operation to raise various species of wood to the temperatures at which they can be cut smoothly. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. A walnut half log is bolted on the stay log of a machine that will cut it smoothly and with great precision into veneer for our combat planes. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Designing corrugated wood. Aircraft poplar veneer after drying and just before inspection and cutting in a Midwest factory. Louisville, Kentucky

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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 510.

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