Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Tedious and exacting is the work of this highly skilled machinist. He is shaping a ship's plate, a difficult operation which must be accurate to the "nth" degree

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.
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Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 921.