Scrap balance cannon. Novel scale was constructed in Akron, Ohio by the Firestone Company in order to get across visually to the public that it takes a lot of scrap metal to provide the steel necessary to make a cannon. This scale actually works, and as the metal scrap was poured into the left-hand portion of the scale, it gradually balanced the one on the right

A black and white photo of a train yard. Office of War Information Photograph

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Final inspection of a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage assembly. America's war program requires increased production of these precision instruments of protection, designed to bring down the best-armoured, the fastest-flying enemy aircraft. Production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industrial engineering plant now converted almost entirely to military production. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more steel. These highly skilled machinists are doing their part to expand and maintain America's steel production capacity. Heavy castings that will form the backbone of steel mill equipment are being machined in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. Aetna. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Fingers of destruction. Gauging and weighing 50-caliber ball cartridges in an endless row. Production for war is geared up to top speed at this eastern Army arsenal

Nearly ready. Checking the dimensions of the finished cradle for an 8-inch gun, railway carriage. This is one of the first operations on the gun, being built in an eastern arsenal

Scrap balance cannon. Novel scale was constructed in Akron, Ohio by the Firestone Company in order to get across visually to the public that it takes a lot of scrap metal to provide the steel necessary to make a cannon. This scale actually works, and as the metal scrap was poured into the left-hand portion of the scale, it gradually balanced the one on the right

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1942

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United States. Office of War Information.

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Location

Akron (Ohio), 41.08139, -81.51889

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