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Self-sealing fuel tanks. Touching up with an air buffer the inside of a self-sealing fuel tank, working on the fitting for pipes, one of which carries the fuel to the motor and the other of which is the tank motors. These tanks are an important safety development for military development. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Touching up with an air buffer the inside of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bantam, Connecticut. Ernest Gervais came to Bantam from Plainfield, Connecticut, a little town just outside New London. He operates a shaving machine at the Warren McArthur plant, while his younger brother runs a buffer. Two aunts, Alice and Regine Langevin, are upholsterers at the plant, while Regine's husband, Armand, operates a mechanical hammer. Alice Langevin was first to come to work at the Warren McArthur plant, in June 1941, and her two nephews followed her by a month. Shortly thereafter, Armand and Regine came from Albany, New York, where Armand was a machinist and Regine a dressmaker. Ernest goes into the Army in March 1942, with no complaints. "Wherever they think I'll do the most good," he says, "it's OK with me." Armand, a native of Montreal, was in the U.S. Army during World War I

Bantam, Connecticut. Ernest Gervais came to Bantam from Plainfield, Co...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Trouble for warbirds. The buffer cylinder to a 37 mm anti-craft gun carriage chassis is assembled in an eastern arsenal. Production of these guns in quantities under the war program bodes no good to an unfriendly aircraft

Trouble for warbirds. The buffer cylinder to a 37 mm anti-craft gun ca...

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