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Women in defense. This Middlewestern plant has converted not only its machinery but also its skilled labor force from the peacetime production of electric fans and motors to the war production of twenty-millimeter shell boosters. Here a veteran employee of the plant's experimental division teaches a former farmerette the operation of a Haskins drilling machine, which drill holes in a twenty-millimeter shell booster part

Women in defense. This Middlewestern plant has converted not only its ...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valve needles for blood transfusion donor bottles are inspected for defects by Betty McGrath, an employee of Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois. Miss McGrath was formerly a waitress; her sister is an Army nurse

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valve needles for blood transfu...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. A woman employee at Vultee's Downey, California plant works on a fuselage frame for a "Valiant" basic trainer. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. A woman employee at Vul...

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

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. War production knows no age. An elderly and a young employee of an Eastern manufacturing concern, now converted to production of precision tools and brass quadrants, jig-bore a bullet die. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. War production knows no age. A...

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Inside the fuselage of a North American P-51 fighter, this woman employee assembles an electrical switch box

Inside the fuselage of a North American P-51 fighter, this woman emplo...

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.

Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania. Trailer camp near Alexandria, Virginia

Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Goodyear Company, Akron, Ohio makes use of employee ideas for slogans and suggestions for speeding up production. A suggestion box with convenient racks for forms helps keep workers up-to-date with the war production drive

The Goodyear Company, Akron, Ohio makes use of employee ideas for slog...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. An employee with years of experience at Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, explains the assembly of a horizontal stabilizer to a new woman employee. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. An employee with years of e...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. An employee of the U.S. Navy Department laid up with a cold in his room at Dissin's boardinghouse

Washington, D.C. An employee of the U.S. Navy Department laid up with ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farmers, vendors, store, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Victory Book Campaign. Members of the House of Representatives display books they contributed to the 1943 Victory Book Campaign. Holdig books are (left to right): Representative Aime J. Forand of Rhode Island; Representative Ralph Church, Illinois; Representative Thomas D'Alessandro Jr., Maryland; Representative George Dondero, Michigan; Reprsentative Allen D. Treadway of Massachusetts; John Snyder, employee of the House; Representative Emanuel Celler of New York; John Murphy, Pennsylvania; and Representative John McCormick, Massachusetts

Victory Book Campaign. Members of the House of Representatives display...

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Perched high in the nose of a plane, this sailor mechanic is inspecting a Navy PBY at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. The ship has been reconditioned by civil service employee in the assembly and repair Department at the base. Every ship, after fulfilling its schedule of service, must be completely reconditioned. This work is done by the assembly and repair department

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Perched high in the nose of a p...

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

Citation winners. Citation winner, Joseph H. Kautsky, an employee of the Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony. He was a luncheon speaker on behalf of the Honor Group

Citation winners. Citation winner, Joseph H. Kautsky, an employee of t...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Thousands of feet of insulated conductor wire that go into a North American B-25 bomber are sorted by this woman employee in the electrical assembly department at Inglewood, California. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Thousands of feet of insula...

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.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Forming lucite (a shatter-proof plastic "glass") for war plane enclosures requires extreme care. Here an employee at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California plant cleans a mold with compressed air before forming the part. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Forming lucite (a shatter-...

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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. She'd pass for a choir singer. A Vultee woman employee shown making a labor distribution check. She is standing under the engine nucleus of the "Vengeance" dive bomber manufcatured at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. She'd pass for a choir si...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bund-Nazi powerful tieup in this country former reporter tells House Committee. Washington, D.C., Aug. 12. First mystery witness today before the Special House Committee investigating Un-American activities was John Metcalfe, former Chicago reporter but now employee of the Committee as a special investigator. Joining the bund under the name of Hellmut Oberwinder, Metcalfe testified that the leader of the German-American bund, Fritz Kuhn, has a secret relationship with Nazi government so powerful he has taken credit for the recall of former German Ambassador Hans Luther and the shifting of German Consuls in this country who refused to so-operate with the bund movement, 8/12/38

Bund-Nazi powerful tieup in this country former reporter tells House C...

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Citation winners. At the White House, certificate winner George Smolarek (left), employee of the Aircraft Engine Department, Packard Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, and citation winner Walter H. Hill, employed by the Wolverine Tube Division of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, Detriot, Michigan, meet "Miss Victory," also a Detroit war worker

Citation winners. At the White House, certificate winner George Smolar...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America's success in World War I are vital to our efforts in World War II. This Negro riveter is a veteran employee in a large Eastern shipyard. Another Negro broke the world record for riveting in World War I. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America'...

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

Kathryn M. Miller, first woman to be employed as a laborer at the Reading Company general stores. She is the first to qualify as an operator of the tricky electric trucks which move loads about the busy platforms in the local yard. She is a former hosiery mill employee and says she doesn't mind the cold at all

Kathryn M. Miller, first woman to be employed as a laborer at the Read...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Instrument panels--the "brains" of a modern combat ship--are mounted ready to install in the airplane by this woman employee at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Instrument panels--the "bra...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elderly women as well as young women find work in the aircraft industry. This North American employee assembles stringers in the sheet metal sub-assembly department

Elderly women as well as young women find work in the aircraft industr...

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.

In the sub-assembly department, this woman employee assembles parts for North American B-25 bombers and P-51 Mustang fighters. Engine control rods

In the sub-assembly department, this woman employee assembles parts fo...

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Women in industry. Tool production. Eyes averted from the white shower of sparks, this young employee of a drill and tool plant touches the button that welds drills to their shanks. She's one of nearly 1,000 women who have replaced men at the production machines of this Midwest factory. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Eyes averted from the white showe...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Jukebox plant. A skilled milling machine operator, this employee of an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern has already been given war work to do. He's aiding in production of electrical control instruments whose basic design is similar to the control device on jukeboxes. When jukeboxes still on the assembly lines have been completed this firm will devote most of its space to war production. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. A skilled milling machine operator, this em...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A trailer load of material from the receiving stockrooms of the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, is hitched to a small truck driven by a woman employee. This plant produces the battle-tested ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A trailer load of material ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Transformer manufacture. These porcelain spirals are part of the works of a power transformer; transformers are essential to war production industries, and this employee of a large Eastern electrical company, working in the bushing section, is contributing essentially to Uncle Sam's war effort. Bushings are the tubes which hold the copper leads through which power flows both in and out of giant transformers. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These porcelain spirals are part of the works...

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Citation winners. Joseph H. Kautsky, (right) an employee at the Dodge Plant of the Link-Belt Company of Indianapolis, Indiana is shown being congratulated by William G. Marshall, director of the war production drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winners. Joseph H. Kautsky, (right) an employee at the Dodge ...

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