Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Just as the "long rifle" of the American pioneer was the world's best gun of its day, so the machine guns of our modern air force must be better than any other. Shaping a machine gun barrel is exacting work, but the precision techniques of a former auto plant readily handle the job. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Lot catalog card states that the geographic location of images in lot is Akron, Ohio, but per caption is Lansing, Michigan.
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 30, frame 2168.
Tags
Date
01/01/1942
Location
ingham county
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain