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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal bulldozer was used to fashion parts for merry-go-rounds to lighten the hearts of carefree children. The drill press has now been converted so that it can perform a face milling operation on landing gear cases for Airacobras. Mathew Kipa, expert machinist, uses a depth micrometer to check the accuracy of his work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal b...

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Health and welfare activities. North American Aviation. Expert medical attention is given all workers at North American Aviation in Inglewood, California. Whether the injury is incidental or major, all accidents are given immediate examination in NAA's hospital. Here, a young office worker gets a whirlfoam bath treatment in one of the company's hospital rooms

Health and welfare activities. North American Aviation. Expert medical...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle apply outer "skins" to fuselage sections for new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers, while assembly and fitting operations go forward in the interiors. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plan...

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Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. When this fine American soldier, just finishing a hardening up course at Fort Benning, Georgia, gives you the red light, remember he's an expert at stopping traffic

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. W...

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Bantam, Connecticut. The kapok room in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop is screened off to prevent the feathery filling from flying freely about the plant. Expert at stuffing kapok into cushions are Barbara Skilton and Frances Humphrey. Barbara, at left, lives in Morris, the next town to Bantam, at her father's farm, where several other workers in the plant board. Her husband works at the Waterbury Brass Company, and they have a son two years old. Frances, a graduate of Litchfield High School, prefers this work to the secretarial position she used to have in Torrington. "There is more money, and you don't have to worry about it at night," she says. Both girls began work in Bantam in December, 1941

Bantam, Connecticut. The kapok room in the Warren McArthur upholstery ...

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Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. Carell supervising the set-up of a lathe with turret attachment in the basement of his home where he does subcontracting on war work. His day shift consists of the expert mechanics

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. Carell supervising the se...

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Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is an expert upholstery worker. He once ran his own furniture shop in Pittsburgh, and before coming to Bantam in June of 1941, supervised an upholstery shop in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Stewart, a Buffalo girl whom he married in 1936, is also working in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. They left their furnished room in a Bantam farmhouse in January, 1942, to occupy a four-room flat in the new eighty-unit defense homes project a few minutes from the plant

Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is a...

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Lend-lease in action. American war planes, provided through lend-lease, are in action on the various fighting fronts. Lend-lease twin engine bombers are shown being hoisted aboard ship in an unnamed American port from a lighter alongside. They are bound for distant Allied ports. More bombers in the background are awaiting loading. Expert welders fasten the big planes securely to the ship's deck to protect shipments from damage during heavy weather

Lend-lease in action. American war planes, provided through lend-lease...

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Befire dies are shipped they are tested on these tryout presses where the new dies are put into actual use and their operation scrutinized very closely by expert machinists. Plant of Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan

Befire dies are shipped they are tested on these tryout presses where ...

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Fuel oil conservation. Felt, wood, or metal weather stripping wards off Jack Frost and can save as much as fifteen per cent on fuel. The householder can apply felt or wood stripping himself, metal weather stripping, however, should be installed by an expert

Fuel oil conservation. Felt, wood, or metal weather stripping wards of...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 tanks as they come off the assembly lines at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. These twenty-eight ton behemoths are put through seventy-five miles of stiff testing before they are turned over to the government

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 t...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). An expert installs the accessories for the engine of Dodge Army trucks that are specified by Army regulations. With skill and accuracy craftsman shown above attaches oil filters, air cleaners, hoops up spark plug wires and sees that all are properly coordinated and in good working order

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). An expert installs the accessories for...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Dr. William B. McCallum, manager who had been with the company since 1910 and is reputed to be the world's outstanding expert in guayule culture

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Dr. William B....

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Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is an expert upholstery worker. He once ran his own furniture shop in Pittsburgh, and before coming to Bantam in June of 1941, supervised an upholstery shop in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Stewart, a Buffalo girl whom he married in 1936, is also working in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. They left their furnished room in a Bantam farmhouse in January, 1942, to occupy a four-room flat in the new eighty-unit defense homes project a few minutes from the plant

Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is a...

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Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. When this fine American soldier, just finishing a hardening up course at Fort Benning, Georgia, gives you the red light, remember he's an expert at stopping traffic

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. W...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workmen cutting a parachute rigging line. This method was perfected by Leslie Irvin, America's world-famous parachute expert, who spent two months in this factory helping to work out efficient production methods. A great deal of the machinery in use here was supplied under lend-lease

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workmen cu...

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Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. When this fine American soldier, just finishing a hardening up course at Fort Benning, Georgia, gives you the red light, remember he's an expert at stopping traffic

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. W...

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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. New bus railheads are established just as quickly as enough employees apply for transportation to justify it. Here, a transportation expert plots new bus routes

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. New bus railheads are established just a...

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Expert machinist on armaments. Boring and facing a setter fuze in one operation at a large eastern arsenal working full speed for total war

Expert machinist on armaments. Boring and facing a setter fuze in one ...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. This young worker is an expert at sewing fabric onto movable control surfaces. The section on which he is now working, at this huge Ohio plant, will eventually be part of a U.S. bombing plane. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. This young worker is an expert at sewin...

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.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Henry Colomy, Jr., is the beauty expert at the trailer camp. She does not charge for her services, and young housewives return her kindness by taking care of Mrs. Colomy's young son when she does her weekly shopping, or sometimes in the form of gifts. The husbands of both Mrs. Colomy and Mrs. Rogan (seated) are employed at the General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Henry Colomy, Jr., is the be...

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

Health and welfare activities. North American Aviation. An X-ray examination to locate the source of internal pain is about to be given to this young worker at North American Aviation in Inglewood, California. Expert medical attention is given all workers at NAA in the modern company hospital rooms

Health and welfare activities. North American Aviation. An X-ray exami...

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Neck chamers for the artillery. A battery commander telescope expert checking its azimuth circle. Fine instruments are as necessary a part of production at the Army, in which this equipment is produced, as big guns

Neck chamers for the artillery. A battery commander telescope expert c...

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Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. C.K. Liang, a senior technical expert chemist, working in the Chemistry Division Laboratory of the National Institute of Health. Dr. Liang was send here by the Chinese government under the auspices of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to do various research work and study post-war problems

Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. C.K. Liang, a senior technical expert chemist,...

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Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. C.K. Liang, a senior technical expert chemist, working in the Chemistry Division Laboratory of the National Institute of Health. Dr. Liang was send here by the Chinese government under the auspices of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to do various research work and study post-war problems

Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. C.K. Liang, a senior technical expert chemist,...

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State AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) expert explaining detail of program for 1940. Eufaula, Oklahoma

State AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) expert explaining d...

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Madison, Wisconsin. John Stuart Curry discussing his mural in the biochemistry building at the University of Wisconsin with Dr. H. Steenback, expert on diet and radiation of food

Madison, Wisconsin. John Stuart Curry discussing his mural in the bioc...

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Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Inspecting cores for armor-piercing bullets in a converted Eastern plant that formerly made animal traps. Every bullet must pass several tests for weight, profile, etc.. Small and very accurate guages are used by young women who have been trained as expert inspectors

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Inspecting co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric company, George Matheson, expert electrical worker, skillfully adjusts spools of copper wire feeding on to the large 120 turn coils which he turns. Production of all such electrical equipment has been greatly stepped up due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric com...

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Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving the plant of the Ford Motor Company where his son is employed as an expert tool and die maker and he is foreman of the rough stock department of the Johansson gauge division. They drive twenty-five miles to and from work in their Ford car

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving th...

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

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. The finishing touches in the making of a precision die are done by hand by this expert toolmaker in a large auto plant which has converted to the production of aircraft landing gear

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. The finishing touches...

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

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. When this fine American soldier, just finishing a hardening up course at Fort Benning, Georgia, gives you the red light, remember he's an expert at stopping traffic

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. W...

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Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Westerberg and his son Eric punching the time clock at the entrance to the Ford Motor Company where Eric is an expert tool and die maker and his father is foreman of the rough stock division of the Johansson gauge division

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Westerberg and his son Eric punching the time...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. Expert mechanics complete final delivery arrangements on a group of C-47 transport planes at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Expert mechanics complete final del...

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Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombers of the United States Army air forces as they pursued Marshal Erwin Rommel's retreating Afrika Korps through Libya and Tripoli to the Tunisian coast. Wrecked Axis aircraft, victims of bombing and strafing lie piled up on Castel Nenito Airdrome, awaiting arrival of expert salvage crews to denude the wreckage of any usable parts, the remainder to be turned into scrap.

Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombe...

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Sampling cotton at compress for length of staple and grade. These expert samplers can tell merely by looking at the staple what its length is within one sixteenth of an inch. Compress, Houston, Texas

Sampling cotton at compress for length of staple and grade. These expe...

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Sealing and shaping the bead. Each new bead must be sealed into position by this forming tool as well as by use of the solvent-cement compound. Every tire built is the personal achievement of the expert tire builder. Building a larger size truck tire often consumes a full day's work! Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Sealing and shaping the bead. Each new bead must be sealed into positi...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for the production of Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns mounts and carriages at a large Midwest rubber factory involves skilled precision operations. Here an expert workman is making the final cut on a vertical turret lathe. When this operation is complete, the bronze ring will be moved to the gear for the concluding operation

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for ...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle apply outer "skins" to fuselage sections for new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers, while assembly and fitting operations go forward in the interiors. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plan...

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Production. Aircraft. Here's one good reason why refrigerator freezing trays and other aluminum gadgets are out for the duration. On trays in the background are hundreds of aluminum castings going into Lockheed bombers and fighters. Every prime casting is "explored" in a huge X-ray camera like the one seen here. On X-ray film, flaws that might cause failure of these vital parts show up plainly to the expert eye, and the part is discarded

Production. Aircraft. Here's one good reason why refrigerator freezing...

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Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. C.K. Liang, a senior technical expert chemist, working in the Chemistry Division Laboratory of the National Institute of Health. Dr. Liang was send here by the Chinese government under the auspices of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to do various research work and study post-war problems

Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. C.K. Liang, a senior technical expert chemist,...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam's defense industries. Not only are welded connections as strong as, or stronger than, riveted connections, but they mean a saving steel and in overall weight. This welder is working on the engine support assembly of an M-3 tank at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam...

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Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. Class work is part of their training to be expert tool and die makers

Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. C...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle apply outer "skins" to fuselage sections for new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers, while assembly and fitting operations go forward in the interiors. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plan...

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Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. To type the complex statistical tables accurately, there is a specially trained staff of expert typists

Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. To type the complex st...

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New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine transport workers in the fleet force are the most expert of tire changers. This man, in training at the New River, North Carolina base, takes them all ways: big ones, little ones, any way they come. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine transp...

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.

Before dies are shipped they are tested in actual use in tryout presses, where their operations are closely scrutininzed by expert die makers. One of these has just placed the die in the tryout press shown here. Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan

Before dies are shipped they are tested in actual use in tryout presse...

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New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport unit. America boasts the world's best military truck drivers. This capable member of a Marine motor transport unit at New River, North Carolina is an expert at tooling a truck through the worst kind of going. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport unit. America boasts...

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Mr. Thomas Dorsey, radio technician, in Green's radio and electrical store. Mr. Dorsey is an expert radio repairman and studied at the Tilden technical school in Chicago, Illinois

Mr. Thomas Dorsey, radio technician, in Green's radio and electrical s...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 tanks as they come off the assembly lines at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. These twenty-eight ton behemoths are put through seventy-five miles of stiff testing before they are turned over to the government

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 t...

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

Health and welfare activities. North American Aviation. Expert medical attention is given all employees at North American Aviation in Inglewood, California. Whether the injury is incidental or major, all accidents are given instant attention in NAA's hospital. Here, an office worker is having an X-ray made of an ailing wrist

Health and welfare activities. North American Aviation. Expert medical...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to fashion parts for merry-go-rounds to lighten the hearts of carefree children. The drill press has now been converted so that it can perform a face milling operation on landing gear cases for Airacrobras. Mathew Kipa, expert machinist, uses a depth micrometer to check the accuracy of his work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to...

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New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine transport workers in the fleet force are the most expert of tire changers. This man, in training at the New River, North Carolina base, takes them all ways: big ones, little ones, any way they come. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine transp...

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No errors, more hits. Expert opticians work on the optical assembly of aiming apparatus for the Army guns, produced at a large eastern arsenal

No errors, more hits. Expert opticians work on the optical assembly of...

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New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport unit. America boasts the world's best military truck drivers. This capable member of a Marine motor transport unit at New River, North Carolina is an expert at tooling a truck through the worst kind of going. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport unit. America boasts...

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Tunis, Tunisia. Major General H.C. Hoo, tank expert and head of the Chinese military mission to North Africa, inspecting captured German guns with Lieutenant B. Zeff, British ordnance officer

Tunis, Tunisia. Major General H.C. Hoo, tank expert and head of the Ch...

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Expert machinists checking a casting which will soon be a part of a machine to make shells. Plant of Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan

Expert machinists checking a casting which will soon be a part of a ma...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A women worker, over 60 years old, does an expert riveting job on a B-17F bomber in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A women worker, over 60 years old, do...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle apply outer "skins" to fuselage sections for new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers, while assembly and fitting operations go forward in the interiors. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plan...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. The nose of a C-47 transport plane takes shape under the expert hands of men and women workers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. The nose of a C-47 transport plane ...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Arthur Metz was a cutter in a large Bridgeport upholstery shop before coming to the Warren McArthur plant, in April 1941. He's a native of St. Louis, Missouri, having come east in 1929. An expert with the electric knife, Metz daily drives the thirty-five miles between the plant and Bridgeport, where he lives with his wife and two children

Bantam, Connecticut. Arthur Metz was a cutter in a large Bridgeport up...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. On the flight line of Douglas Aircraft Company at Long Beach, California, expert mechanics complete final adjustments before a C-47 transport plane makes trial flight. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. On the flight line of Douglas Aircr...

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Juanita Reviers, expert aircraft mechanic, uses a portable electric drill on the belly covering of a consolidated transport plane converted from a B-24 bomber. These new transports, now going down the production lines of a big Western plant, carry one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Juanita Reviers, expert ...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam's defense industries. Not only are welded connections as strong as, or stronger than, riveted connections, but they mean a saving steel and in overall weight. This welder is working on the engine support assembly of an M-3 tank at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam...

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Dearborn, Michigan. Outside the pleasant brick home of Mrs. Ruth Peterson, the daugter of Karl Axel Westerberg. Her husband is employed as an expert tool and die maker at the Ford Motor Company. She and their two children are shown with her brother Eric and her father

Dearborn, Michigan. Outside the pleasant brick home of Mrs. Ruth Peter...

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