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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high school students are making a record among the vocational schools of the state in the speed with which they are picking up the mechanics of repairing airplane motors. Dewey Stewart, nineteen, is checking the valve adjustment on a Wright J-5 in the motor room of the Volusia County Vocational School, operating on the dance floor of a revamped nightclub

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc welder wears at the training school of the De Land, Florida pool is the face of one of the townsmen, familiar to many in the community as a barber, salesman, taxi driver or gas station attendant. Soon he'll be working on one of the many important war production jobs the De Land pool is doing

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc we...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded as a tourist playground without machines or men capable of war production. Since Pearl Harbor, along the highways and byways of the state, precision machinery is daily being discovered in small shops like this, which are producing close-tolerance work for the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded ...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. The flame of welding torches has replaced the soft lights of a nightclub in Daytona Beach, Florida, which has been taken over for a vocational school to train war workers for Florida's pooling program. Pictured above is C.C. Gravelge, welding instructor, showing one of his classes the difficult art of overhead welding in preparation for their initiation into aircraft welding jobs on the De Land pool's war contract

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. The flame of welding torche...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Everyone pitches in to get out the work in the Babcock plant, prime contractor for the De Land, Florida pool. Above, Mary Babcock, daughter of V.C. Babcock, vice-president of the company, didn't dream when she studied art six month ago she would use it applying paint to the crates that carry the company's motor and repair racks to the war fronts

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Everyone pitches in to get out t...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained along with men in the Volusia County, Florida Vocational School to take their places on the war production front. Pearl Kinchen, who is leaning overhead welding under the watchful eye of instructor, is a housewife with a brother in the army. She will soon be welding aircraft in the De Land industrial pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained alo...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. War production in Florida cost these circus animals their winter home for the duration. They are shown as the Johnny J. Jones show vacated its winter quarters at the Volusia County fairgrounds to make room for subcontractors in the De Land pool, who turned the fairgrounds' buildings into a large war production plant

De Land pool. Moving circus. War production in Florida cost these circ...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell of the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School is explaining the intricate job of balancing an airplane propeller to Randolph Thompson and Wilson Flippo, Daytona Beach high school students who'll soon be doing this work on army aircraft

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell of th...

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. The last operation in the De Land, Florida industrial pool is buttoning up the huge motor repair racks in their packing crates, sealing them against everything from sand to seawater. Left is Mary Babcock, daughter of plant owner, who never dreamed she would be painting destination letters on a war crate when she was studying art six months ago. In the foreground is John Kicklighton, who was an insurance salesman before going to work on the production front

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. The last operation in the De Lan...

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a total of 160 years of experience as skilled machinists. They are contributing this experience to the De Land, Florida production pool. Left to right: A.B. Kenyon, seventy, retired tool maker; William E. Mansfield, seventy-one, who made weapons and munitions for Winchester Arms in the first World War; and M.E. Carr, sixty-seven, owner of a plant which is sub-contracting aircraft work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a ...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are those above in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia County Vocational School. Left to right are Helen Cook, a former county courthouse clerk with a brother in the army; Ethel Chandler whose husband is an army lieutenant; Martha Adams, former nurse and now a housewife; Fannie Branum, housewife; Mabel McClintock, secretary and daughter of a retired army officer; and Patricia Blair, a housewife with a brother in the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, wa...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida in processing vital parts for the De Land pool. At the left is Mrs. Ruby Laurence, Mr. La Roe's sister who came down from the north for a visit and stayed south to work on war production. At right is Mrs. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the pro...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit buyer and a carpenter, both over fifty, now doing aircraft welding which is passing army inspectors without a single rejection. Typical of the men of De Land who went into war production are John W. Smith, left, fifty-two, with five children and three granddaughters; and Lape Fridell, right, fifty-six, with three children. They are learning their new trade in the De Land welding school, before going to work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit bu...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after a day's work for the De Land pool. Left is Mrs. La Roe with her two-year-old granddaughter, next is four-year-old Eugene, Clarence La Roe's son, and Mr. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after...

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, Carr's repair plant in De Land, Florida, is now subcontracting on war production. When De Land organized its machines and manpower into a community pool to handle war work, it was discovered Carr's had two things: first class machinery that would work tolerances down to a split hair and first class machinists. Now, much of the precision work on the pool's contract is handled in his plant

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, ...

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Earl Gentry was a beverage salesman faced with the loss of his job by the impact of war. He completed 250 hours of training in the De Land, Florida vocational school. Now he's a first-class welder in the Babcock plant in De Land

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Earl Gentry was a beverage sales...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De Land, Florida industrial pool, couldn't make a certain washer fast enough for the contract. So F.W. Casey took parts from a junk heap and built the speed press pictured above. Now it sits in the yard, because of insufficient room in the little shop, and turns out eight washers a minute for the war machine. Operating it is young Norman Bane, who was an automobile mechanic up until six months ago, when he apprenticed as a machinist under Casey

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De L...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Forty-year-old John Oliver formerly operated a fishing camp on Florida's east coast. When the De Land pool formed, Oliver volunteered and turned out to be a first class machinist who had learned his trade in Oklahoma. Now he is assembly machinist in the plant, able to handle any job that comes along. He is typical of the retired skilled machinists being discovered daily in the state by pool operators

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Forty-year-old John Oliver formerly o...

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a grim meaning in De Land, Florida these days. Here's one of its daily sessions, sewing fabric on airplane wings they hope will be flying over Germany some day soon. Nearest the camera is Joyce Newsom, instructor in De Land's vocational school, giving lessons in the new art of sewing to two grandmothers. Left is Mrs. Gussie Ryals, who has an invalid husband and five grandchildren. Right is Mrs. Ruth Klug, whose husband fought through the first World War, who has two grandchildren, and a boy in a bombing squadron in Australia. Both grandmothers soon will take their places on the assembly line of an aircraft factory

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc welder wears at the training school of the De Land, Florida pool is the face of one of the townsmen, familiar to many in the community as a barber, salesman, taxi driver or gas station attendant. Soon he'll be working on one of the many important war production jobs the De Land pool is doing

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc we...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thirty-two years experience as a machinist, Fred W. Casey, sub-contractor in the De Land, Florida pool, bends over a heavy lathe as it machines a part for the nation's war machine. Fifty-two-year-old Casey, like many machinists who retired to Florida, chuckles at the idea that machinists in the deep South cannot work to close tolerances

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thi...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. People from every walk of life are taking part in the De Land, Florida Vocational School as they learn war trades. Above is Mrs. Mary Owens, a housewife with three children who now is training others to be aircraft welders. With him is chief instructor Glen W. Snyder

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. People from every walk of l...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained along with men in the Volusia County, Florida Vocational School to take their places on the war production front. Pearl Kinchen, who is leaning overhead welding under the watchful eye of instructor, is a housewife with a brother in the army. She will soon be welding aircraft in the De Land industrial pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained alo...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Interior of the Babcock plant at De Land, Florida. When the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, this was a dormant airplane plant. It was revived as a community project. Businessmen of De Land pooled their machines and resources, used this plant as a prime contractor to obtain war work, and now are producing over two-million dollars worth of war equipment in it. These motor repair racks, being turned out on a production schedule engineers termed "impossible" two months ago, are being built by former clerks, auto-mechanics and small shop operators who were caught by the impact of the war on their peacetime businesses

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Interior of the Babcock plant at...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. The members of the De Land, Florida pool solved their welding problem on their first war contract with typical American ingenuity. F.W. Casey had to have a welding generator and couldn't buy one. So he took an old Overland chassis, mounted a Dodge motor on it, attached a Studebaker radiator, and connected a second-hand generator to the engine. The outfit performs with the same efficiency as a five hundred dollar factory job

De Land pool. Bits and parts. The members of the De Land, Florida pool...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. These steel sleeves, machined to perfection, soon will be part of aircraft repair assemblies, a portion of the Carr shop's contribution to the De Land, Florida pool contract

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. These steel sleeves, machined to pe...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of Lake Helen, Florida, worked in the county courthouse before Pearl Harbor with a wife and baby to support. Now he's deep in the war effort, welding aircraft. He is shown going through the De Land Vocational School. Opposite him is Mrs. Mary Owens, housewife and mother of three children, who developed into a first class aircraft welder in the school

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of Lake He...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Fl...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wife, of Eustis, Louisiana, solved one of the De Land industrial pool's most difficult problems by subcontracting part of a war order in their garage workshop. Mr. La Roe helps his wife in the operation of cutting worm gears on their machine

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wi...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-tolerance machine work? Ask A.E. Kenyon, pictured above as he operates a machine turning out war material for the De Land, Florida pool. He's been a toolmaker since 1895 in some of the biggest plants in the country. He retired to Florida and came back into industry to help out in the war. There are a dozen men like him in the plants of the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-toleran...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida went to school with their men-folk to learn welding and aircraft fabric work in preparation for the De Land million-dollar war contract. Above Mrs. Ruby Shie, left, former nurse with a husband and one child, and Mrs. William Tomlinson, former bookkeeper and secretary with one child, are getting ready for the time when they will take their place on the plant assembly line to turn out fighter planes for the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida w...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida. When the La Roes needed high-speed steel for dies and tools in tooling up their little garage workshop, they just walked over to this heap, picked out the right metal and made what they needed on the spot

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida....

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. L.F. Quinton used to be a radio sound engineer with a home workshop where he acquired skill in working to close tolerances, making model racing cars. Now he's using that "know-how" making precision worm gears for the De Land, Florida pool

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. L.F. Quinton used to be a radio sou...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production pools come from all walks and ways of life. Painter on the De Land war contract is Curtis Yelvington, forty-five, born and reared in De Land. He has one son in the coast artillery and another in the Navy, both volunteers. He says, "We are doing everything in our power to help win this war." In the last war, Yelvington tried to enlist three times and finally made it - the day before the armistice was signed

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production p...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at Eustis, Florida, used to be an automobile mechanic. He came from Akron, Ohio in 1920. He is drilling a much needed gear for the De Land community pool's million-dollar war contract. Eight machines work at full speed in his three-car-garage; all of them operated by his wife, sister, both grandmothers, his son, and one helper

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thirty-two years experience as a machinist, Fred W. Casey, sub-contractor in the De Land, Florida pool, bends over a heavy lathe as it machines a part for the nation's war machine. Fifty-two-year-old Casey, like many machinists who retired to Florida, chuckles at the idea that machinists in the deep South cannot work to close tolerances

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thi...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained along with men in the Volusia County Florida Vocational School to take their places on the war production front. Susie Nelson, left, has a husband in Panama and a brother in the Navy. Pearl Kinchem, right, is a housewife with a brother in the army. Soon both of them will be welding aircraft in the De Land industrial pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained alo...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Volusia County, Florida Vocational School, believes women make just as good welders as men. He is shown here with a new class starting in aircraft welding, part of the training program of the De Land pool to provide workers for war production. Left to right are Jane Parker, whose husband already is a war welder and plans to volunteer for the Navy when she can take his place; Kathleen Nowlin, stenographer, an English girl who is a naturalized American citizen; and Sybil Meyers, a housewife

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School, guides the hands of Marie Myers in the first steps of becoming an aircraft welder. Marie was a high school student taking a business course, when she gave it up for defense training entitling her to a high school diploma. She has two brothers in the Army

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Interior of the La Roe garage shop at Eustis, Louisiana, showing the precision machines on which the La Roe family is turning out vital parts for a million-dollar pool war contract centering at De Land, Florida

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Interior of the La Roe garage shop at Eusti...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Mrs. Earl La Roe of Eustis, Florida, a grandmother with two sons in the army, doing her daily shift in the family's garage workshop. She is cutting worm gears needed for the army aircraft equipment made by the De Land, Florida industrial pool

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Mrs. Earl La Roe of Eustis, Florida, a gran...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Speed, speed, and more speed is the watchword in the De Land, Florida pool, where former shoe clerks, salesmen and farmers, men from every walk of life, are working shoulder to shoulder in the Babcock plant, turning out war work with grim efficiency. L.A. Lutrell, above, is typical of the De Land businessmen who are rolling out motor racks for the Air Corps on a record breaking production schedule

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Speed, speed, and more speed is the w...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-tolerance machine work? Ask A.E. Kenyon, pictured above as he operates a machine turning out war material for the De Land, Florida pool. He's been a toolmaker since 1895 in some of the biggest plants in the country. He retired to Florida and came back into industry to help out in the war. There are a dozen men like him in the plants of the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-toleran...

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Alene Green of De Land, Florida, with two sons in the Army and one in the Navy, still felt she wasn't doing enough. So she enrolled in the De Land Vocational School to learn how to put fabric on airplane wings. Within a month she'll be on the assembly line of the Babcock plant, prime contractors for De Land's community industrial pool

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Alene Green of De Land, F...

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. C.L. Purcell and his wife had a pretty hard struggle making ends meet these past few years until he went through the defense trade school at Ocala, Florida. Now he is a qualified machinist and welder and can handle most any job in the Carr plant, a key-subcontractor in the DeLand, Florida pool

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. C.L. Purcell and his wife had a pre...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have a shop big enough to fulfill a two-million-dollar contract for gliders. So it took over the county fairgrounds, formerly winter quarters for a circus, and built an assembly line through its seventeen roomy buildings. The pool's first machines are shown being moved into the fairgrounds building

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have...

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow supporting her two children as an interior decorator. When her hometown of De Land, Florida pooled its manpower and machines to go into war work, she gave up her business and went along. She is shown learning aircraft fabric work in the vocational school set up to train workers for the war plant

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow ...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen, of Daytona, is typical of the hundreds of Volusia County youngsters who are preparing to take their places on Florida's production front. Enrolled in the Daytona Beach Vocational School, he's learning the watchmaker's precision necessary to keep army airplane engines ready for combat

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen, ...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into De Land, Florida three times a week last fall to attend the city's vocational school, established to provide workers for the community war-production pool. He welds, runs an acetylene cutting machine, and doubles in brass on woodworking and the assembly line in the Babcock plant, prime contractors of the pool. He plans to put his sixty-five-year-old father on the job as his helper when he is fully trained. Stephens, forty-four and a veteran of the last war, was one of eighteen machinists uncovered by a manpower survey of the community

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into D...

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. Nothing makes W.E. Mansfield so mad as the idea that Florida shops cannot do fine precision work. He should know, for he's doing it in a member shop of the De Land pool. He worked on weapons and ammunition for the Winchester Arms Company for twenty years and thought he was retiring when he came to Florida. Now seventy-one, he's turning out delicate precision parts for essential war equipment

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. Nothing makes W.E. Mansfield so mad...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. Old pumps, gears, chains, parts from every kind of machine under the sun comprise Casey's source of supply in the corner of his De Land, Florida shop. When he needs a new machine, most of the parts come from this junk heap. On a recent contract handled by the De Land pool, he couldn't get steel for a certain die. He found the metal in the gear he is holding, made the die himself, and put it to use for making airplane parts

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Old pumps, gears, chains, parts from eve...

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Alene Green of De Land, Florida, with two sons in the Army and one in the Navy, still felt she wasn't doing enough. So she enrolled in the De Land Vocational School to learn how to put fabric on airplane wings. Within a month she'll be on the assembly line of the Babcock plant, prime contractors for De Land's community industrial pool

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Alene Green of De Land, F...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production pools come from all walks and ways of life. Painter on the De Land war contract is Curtis Yelvington, forty-five, born and reared in De Land. He has one son in the coast artillery and another in the Navy, both volunteers. He says, "We are doing everything in our power to help win this war." In the last war, Yelvington tried to enlist three times and finally made it - the day before the armistice was signed

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production p...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School, guides the hands of Marie Myers in the first steps of becoming an aircraft welder. Marie was a high school student taking a business course, when she gave it up for defense training entitling her to a high school diploma. She has two brothers in the Army

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor ...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. Faced with the problem of doubling production speed on a certain type of washer needed for the De Land, Florida pool aircraft contract, F.W. Casey went to his scrap heap. He took a two-cylinder gas engine from a spray machine used in an orange grove, a pump from the hydraulic lift of a dump truck, another pump from a steam engine cylinder, and built his hydraulic speed press. Too big for his little machine shop, the machine was set up in the yard, where it produces eight parts a minute for the war machine. Operating it is Norman Bane, Casey's one-man crew

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Sixty-year-old George Lane, former house painter, is a valuable worker in the De Land, Florida pool. He served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corp. Seven of his nephews are in the British Army. Using his old skill with the brush, he is now painting De Land pool products

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Sixty-year-old George Lane, former ho...

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A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These carefree high school students are learning the serious business of war production in a Daytona Beach, Florida vocational school located in a revamped nightclub. Instructor Gil Angell (with piston in his hand) is showing the group how to assemble an airplane engine. Left to right are Wilson, Flippo, Angell, Dewey Stewart, nineteen; Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen; Bill Jackson and Ned Brown, eighteen. Jobs already are waiting for most of them when they finish their courses

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These carefree high school ...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, F...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a grim meaning in De Land, Florida these days. Here's one of its daily sessions, sewing fabric on airplane wings they hope will be flying over Germany some day soon. Nearest the camera is Joyce Newsom, instructor in De Land's vocational school, giving lessons in the new art of sewing to two grandmothers. Left is Mrs. Gussie Ryals, who has an invalid husband and five grandchildren. Right is Mrs. Ruth Klug, whose husband fought through the first World War, who has two grandchildren, and a boy in a bombing squadron in Australia. Both grandmothers soon will take their places on the assembly line of an aircraft factory

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wife, of Eustis, Louisiana, solved one of the De Land industrial pool's most difficult problems by subcontracting part of a war order in their garage workshop. Mr. La Roe helps his wife in the operation of cutting worm gears on their machine

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wi...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high school students are making a record among the vocational schools of the state in the speed with which they are picking up the mechanics of repairing airplane motors. Dewey Stewart, nineteen, is checking the valve adjustment on a Wright J-5 in the motor room of the Volusia County Vocational School, operating on the dance floor of a revamped nightclub

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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A black and white photo of a man cutting a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man cutting a piece of wood. Office of Wa...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at Eustis, Florida, used to be an automobile mechanic. He came from Akron, Ohio in 1920. He is drilling a much needed gear for the De Land community pool's million-dollar war contract. Eight machines work at full speed in his three-car-garage; all of them operated by his wife, sister, both grandmothers, his son, and one helper

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Forty-year-old John Oliver formerly operated a fishing camp on Florida's east coast. When the De Land pool formed, Oliver volunteered and turned out to be a first class machinist who had learned his trade in Oklahoma. Now he is assembly machinist in the plant, able to handle any job that comes along. He is typical of the retired skilled machinists being discovered daily in the state by pool operators

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Forty-year-old John Oliver formerly o...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De Land, Florida industrial pool, couldn't make a certain washer fast enough for the contract. So F.W. Casey took parts from a junk heap and built the speed press pictured above. Now it sits in the yard, because of insufficient room in the little shop, and turns out eight washers a minute for the war machine. Operating it is young Norman Bane, who was an automobile mechanic up until six months ago, when he apprenticed as a machinist under Casey

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De L...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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A black and white photo of a man holding a bottle of wine. Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Seventy-five-year-old Mrs. Katie La Roe, great-grandmother of the family, does the cooking for the La Roe production group at Eustis, Florida to give other members of the family more time for war work in their garage machine shop. The La Roe family forms an important unit in the De Land, Florida industrial pool.

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Seventy-five-year-old Mrs. Katie La Roe, gr...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Mrs. Earl La Roe of Eustis, Florida, a grandmother with two sons in the army, doing her daily shift in the family's garage workshop. She is cutting worm gears needed for the army aircraft equipment made by the De Land, Florida industrial pool

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Mrs. Earl La Roe of Eustis, Florida, a gran...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Earl Gentry was a beverage salesman faced with the loss of his job by the impact of war. He completed 250 hours of training in the De Land, Florida vocational school. Now he's a first-class welder in the Babcock plant in De Land

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Earl Gentry was a beverage sales...

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