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Plant construction. Denver ordnance plant, Denver, Colorado. Setting up forms and steel rod reinforcing for one of the poured concrete buildings at the Denver ordnance plant which will produce small arms ammunition. Other buildings are of steel girder and brick construction

Plant construction. Denver ordnance plant, Denver, Colorado. Setting u...

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Worker unloading lumber from stacks. Dimension lumber plant. Dailey, West Virginia

Worker unloading lumber from stacks. Dimension lumber plant. Dailey, W...

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An instruction class at the Packard marine engine plant in Detroit. The students attending the class shown here are Navy cadets

An instruction class at the Packard marine engine plant in Detroit. Th...

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Preparing butter for packaging. Land O'Lakes plant, Chicago, Illinois

Preparing butter for packaging. Land O'Lakes plant, Chicago, Illinois

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Applying pressure to curd in molds. This process removes moisture and forms a close texture in the cheese. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon

Applying pressure to curd in molds. This process removes moisture and ...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances in shipbuilding during the present century with the torch resulting in immense savings in time, material and weight in the building of ships. This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam's "Liberty fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard.All parts are prefabricated in thus huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

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Concentration plant for Danube mine near Bovey, Minnesota

Concentration plant for Danube mine near Bovey, Minnesota

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Adjusting hub on finished propeller. Hamilton propeller plant. East Hartford, Connecticut

Adjusting hub on finished propeller. Hamilton propeller plant. East Ha...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Use of a former Pullman car plant for the prefabrication of many sections used in the ships being built at a nearby yard means the saving of many valuable months in our shipbuilding program. This man is a brakeman on a train carrying assembled sections from the plant to the yard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Use of a former Pullman car plant for t...

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Filling half gallon milk bottles at Greendale Pasteurizing plant. Wisconsin

Filling half gallon milk bottles at Greendale Pasteurizing plant. Wisc...

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Pasteurizing and bottling plant. Greendale, Wisconsin

Pasteurizing and bottling plant. Greendale, Wisconsin

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Fred B. Williams from Savannah, Georgia, a safety engineer at the powder plant, leaving his home at 803 9th Street. Sunset Village, Radford, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) project for defense workers

Fred B. Williams from Savannah, Georgia, a safety engineer at the powd...

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Trailers for defense workers at Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashville, Tennessee

Trailers for defense workers at Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashville, Tenn...

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

A black and white photo of a man on a train. Office of War Information...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A husky worker in a plant that used to make cash registers is kept busy collecting brass scrap from the production of shell fuses and returning it to the factory. Naional Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A husky worker in a plant...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Fuselage sections

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. William Howell, aircraft worker in a large Eastern plant, is inserting bearings in a surface control of a medium bomber. Howell got his job after completing a war training course. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. William Howell, aircraft worker ...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Landing gears for B-25 bombers, completely assembled, are delivered to the final assembly line of North American's Inglewood, California, plant. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, 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. Landing gears for B-25 bomb...

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Production. P-51 ("Mustang) fighter planes. An inspector checks over the work done on a P-51 fighter before it moves to the next assembly position at North American's Inglewood, California, plant. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 ("Mustang) fighter planes. An inspector checks over t...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. A job often delegated to women in aircraft manufacture is touching up metal braces on ailerons with paint before wing structure is completed. This picture was taken in one of America's automobile body plants newly converted to airplane production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. A job often delegated to women in aircraf...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. In the pipe cutting department of a large Midwest bending plant, elbows are cut to length from sections bent from straight pipe. The cutting is done with saws or automatic torches. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. In the pipe cut...

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Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. A steam cargo winch for the Maritime Commission is put under test in a Midwest plant converted from the production of power farming implements

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. A steam cargo winch for ...

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Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Constructing a water intake tunnel for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Constructing a water intake tu...

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Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Swedish farmer who also works in defense plant to pay off debt on farm. He has just arrived home from the factory and in a few minutes will be doing odd chores around the farm

Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Swedish farmer who also works in defe...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Men and women from all walks of life, like the members of this riveting team, contribute their skills to the production of B-17F heavy bombers at 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. Men and women from all walks of life,...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Operating a valve servicing on of the gas compressors in the TVA's new synthetic plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Op...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Tail sections of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers ready for assembly into the big warships of the air at the Boeing plant in Seattle. 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. Tail sections of B-17F (Flying Fortress...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Finishing wings for Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes in a large Western aircraft plant. The wings, which were accurately assembled in jigs, are added to the plane bodies as they travel down the final assembly line where engines, landing gear, controls and other equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Finishing wings for Lockheed...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Line of "honing" machines formerly used on automobile motors, have been moved back in the plant to make way for war work. Soon these machines will be stored outdoors until the tools necessary to adapt them to war activities can be completed. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Line of "honing" machines formerly us...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant since August 1941, leaving a job as machinist in Torrington to work here. With his wife and their three-year-old daughter, Heath was among the first to move into the new government housing project near the plant, leaving a furnished room in Torrington to occupy a spacious four-room apartment in the eighty-unit project

Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe a...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. New B-24E (Liberator) bombers, just off the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, are lined up for test flights before they are accepted by the Army. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. New B-24E (Libera...

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Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in the laboratories of a large Western aircraft plant. This hydraulic test equipment, with a capacity of 80,000 pounds, is used to squeeze, bend, stretch, or break every type of part used in aircraft construction. These tests assure that the part will stand the terrific strain of aerial combat conditions

Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in the laboratories of a large W...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion no. 1 coal cleaning plant

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion no. 1 coal cleaning plan...

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Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. In a trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Carefully selected soap is used in the making of solutions used during the manufacture of synthetic rubber. This worker is mixing a solution at the B.F. Goodrich plant, in Akron, Ohio. It is mixed in a nickel-lined tank. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Carefully selected soap is used in the ma...

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A Swedish defense worker, who was born in Sweden, working at a plant in Minnesota

A Swedish defense worker, who was born in Sweden, working at a plant i...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of...

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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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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Guayule shrub in blossom. If growing conditions are good, the plant is a prolific seeder and the seeds have relatively high visability. Guayule plantings will produce a estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Guayule shrub in blossom. If growing...

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Morenci, Arizona. Conveyor galleries where ore is transported to the smelter plant in the background

Morenci, Arizona. Conveyor galleries where ore is transported to the s...

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Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Taking a sample of gasoline from tank car just loaded

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Taking a sample of gasoline fr...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. In the bombardier's compartment of a B-25 bomber, North American employees assemble the electrical system as the section moves down the long conveyor line 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. In the bombardier's compart...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Fuselage sections

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas climbing into a tank

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Workers assembling a motor

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...

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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Outside the plant gate, they wait for busses like this one. Eighty-four busses of this type have been placed in service in about six weeks, and more are being added continually. Busses will make the circuit of all the gates, stopping a few minutes at each, then making a straight run to the railhead

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Outside the plant gate, they wait for bu...

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Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a large East Coast steel mill, is participating in his second world war production drive. This sixty-year-old war worker is shown on his bycicle rushing time cards and tools from one part of the massive steel plant to another. Bethlehem Fairfield Steel

Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a lar...

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army. Continuous chain conveyors in the stamping department of a converted auto radiator plant where presses form helmets from sheet steel and trim them at the edges. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army...

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Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Simmons family in their trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

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Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. In a trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) c...

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Aluminum casting. Experienced workers in an aluminum plant, converted to production of essential articles for America's armed forces, pictured pouring the molten aluminum alloy into molds. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Experienced workers in an aluminum plant, converted ...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Final additions are made to the shell of a consolidated transport plane in preparation for its trip down the final assembly line of a Western aircraft plant. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Final additions are made...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion no. 1 cleaning plant

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion no. 1 cleaning plant

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Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Steel and concrete go into place rapidly as a new steel mill takes form. The new plant will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Steel and concrete go into pla...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. One of the workmen in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation carefully adjusts a loom weaving tape which must meet rigid Army and Navy specifications to insulate electrical equipment

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. One of the workme...

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Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

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San Benito County, California. Japanese-American woman who owns and operates tomato plant nursery. She is expecting final evacuation orders

San Benito County, California. Japanese-American woman who owns and op...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Large plane parts are formed on a special hydraulic press in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation. Two women employees keep it in constant operation during their shift. 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. Large plane parts are forme...

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Detroit, Michigan. Dimensional finishers at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Dimensional finishers at the Allison Motors plant

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Feeding the batch into what glass men call "the doghouse"--the charging end of a furnace--this worker is servicing one of the tanks used to manufacture fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Feeding the batch...

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Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells are carefully gauged to ensure perfectly uniform ammunition for our fighting men. A converted Midwest auto plant is now producing these shells as efficiently as it turned out parts for automobiles

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells ...

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Arlington, Virginia. Auto refinishing plant. Beating dents out of a car body

Arlington, Virginia. Auto refinishing plant. Beating dents out of a ca...

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Swedish-American foreman at the SKF roller bearing plant reads to his Italian-American wife at home. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Swedish-American foreman at the SKF roller bearing plant reads to his ...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Day and night, the conversion of a big auto manufacturing plant to the production of machine guns for the Air Corps continues without letup until the job is done. Electricians extending power lines are often among the first at the new machine locations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Day and night, the conversi...

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Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by e...

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Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Merchant, who live in one of the houses. Mr. Merchant works at the Carniege steel plant

Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Mr. and Mrs. Frank L....

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A defense worker who was born in Sweden, welding at a plant in Minnesota, possibly the Northern Pump Company in Minneapolis

A defense worker who was born in Sweden, welding at a plant in Minneso...

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Bathroom in the Merchant's apartment. Two floors--five rooms including kitchen and bath. Mr. Merchant works at the Carnegie Steel Company's South Chicago plant. They have three children: Frank, eight; Rosemary, eight; and baby fiur months old. Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago, Illinois

Bathroom in the Merchant's apartment. Two floors--five rooms including...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This stretching machine in the hydraulic press department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California, forms sheet metal parts by stretching metal over a die. The sheet is stretched almost to its elastic limit so it will retain its form. 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. This stretching machine in ...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. The nacelle of a B-25 bomber is assembled on the center section at the North American Aviation plant 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. The nacelle of a B-25 bombe...

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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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Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant that normally produces electric dry shavers is now busy turning out spring collets for machine tools to be used in war production. On this Norton type C six-inch semi-automatic cylindrical grinder, he used to turn out rotor shafts for the motor of the shaver. To convert his machine to the larger grinding job, it was necessary only to exchange the normal one-inch vitrified aluminum oxide wheel for a three-inch wheel and to increase the feed of the cooling solution. This worker was used to working to a tolerance of .0002 inches on the motor shafts so he finds it simple to attain the comparatively rough tolerance of .002 inches required on this war work. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Kent, Maine. Garage which was closed because of shortages and has been proposed as a building to house a textile plant

Fort Kent, Maine. Garage which was closed because of shortages and has...

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Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it has gone through a grueling test in a Midwest plant. Each of the disassembled parts will be carefully inspected before the engine is reassembled and subjected to a final checkup. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. At mealtimes clear around the clock, four company restaurants provide food for the employees. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. At mealtimes clear ...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. Interesting patterns are formed by the wings of A-20 attack bombers, waiting their turn on the assembly lines of the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Interesting patterns are formed by th...

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Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Fence around loading rack

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Fence around loading rack

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas at supply pigeon holes

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for the Air Corps. Electricians begin running power lines to the new machine locations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A big auto plant changes ov...

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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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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A gas-cooling tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A girl worker at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, puts final touches on a nacelle of a B-17F heavy bomber before it is installed on a wing. 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 girl worker at the Long Beach, Cali...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Assembling bomber seats at the Warren McArthur plant is Ralph DePino who commutes from Naugatuck, a heavy industrial town just below Waterbury. Depino came to America fourty-three years ago from his native Italy at the age of six months, and has been at the Bantam plant since June 1941. He formerly worked at Winchester Arms, in New Haven and at the Boston Navy Yard

Bantam, Connecticut. Assembling bomber seats at the Warren McArthur pl...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women take over the operation of some of the heaviest tools at the Inglewood, Calfornia plant of North American Aviation Incorporated. Day and night, shifts of girl employees use this huge hydraulic press to form thousands of sheet metal parts for United Nations war planes. 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 in Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women take over the operati...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport planes awaits the installation of wings 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. A long line of C-47 transport plane...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the hydraulic press department of North American Aviation, Incorporated, at Inglewood, California, places a sheet metal part on a Masonite die prior to moving it under the press. The 3,000 ton press takes only about ten seconds to do the actual forming. 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. A woman employee in the hyd...

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War production drive. Most war production drives feature the sale of defense bonds and stamps. This thermometer in the Nothern Pump Company plant stimulated the sale of bonds and made the men more conscious of the fact that they were in the war to win

War production drive. Most war production drives feature the sale of d...

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Storage tanks at a gasoline plant

Storage tanks at a gasoline plant

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Production. Copper (refining). Transfer cars at a large copper refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Transfer cars at a large copper refinin...

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Production. Copper (refining). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper refining operation. Sheets of pure copper are formed by electrolysis, later melted and poured into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper re...

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Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Workman in the processing plant of the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company shutting a valve to stop the flow of coal in one of the hoppers below

Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Workman in the p...

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Production. B-25 bombers. New B-25 bombers lined up for final inspection and tests at the flying field of a Western Aircraft plant. General Doolittle, who flew in a B-25 in the raid on Tokyo, has called this ship the best military plane in existence. It performs brilliantly at its 25,000-foot ceiling. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. New B-25 bombers lined up for final inspecti...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Beveling a large pipe elbow to prepare it for butt welding. Elbows like this, for use in Army equipment, are made by bending straight pipe in a large Midwest plant. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Beveling a large pipe elbow to prepare it f...

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Production. War housing trailers. The front end section of a war housing trailer goes into place at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Plastic wheel wells, which will shortly be covered by cabinet work, are made of paper impregnated with a special hardening solution and formed over molds. This material is a very satisfactory substitute for the steel formerly used

Production. War housing trailers. The front end section of a war housi...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Crankshaft assembles for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines must undergo a rigid inspection in a large Eastern war plant now working full tilt to supply our armed forces with power installations for our war planes. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Crankshaft assembles f...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The Army Air Force insignia, a white star on a blue field, has just been painted on the fuselage of a B-25 bomber at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California. The painter is removing the paper template used to outline the star. 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. The Army Air Force insignia...

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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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Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for shipment. Now undergoing conversion to production of machine gun parts for Uncle Sam's army, this plant has only a small percentage of its equipment still producing oil burners. Those still rolling off the assembly lines are sent primarily to U.S. Army agencies or shipped abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for s...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A nearly complete B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber at the Boeing's production line in the Seattle plant. 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. A nearly complete B-17F (Flying Fortres...

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