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Miscellaneous collection of photographs of aircraft production

Miscellaneous collection of photographs of aircraft production

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Make it right--They'll make it fight. Poster distributed by War Production Board (WPB) to war plants. The original is 22 inches x 28 inches and is printed in red and blue. Copies are obtainable from War Production Drive Headquarters, 1210 Raleigh Hotel, Washinton, D.C.

Make it right--They'll make it fight. Poster distributed by War Produc...

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Slogan for a production army. 1) What could be fairer than this? The above sketch for a sticker is one of a number designed by the War Production Board (WPB) in connection with the war production drive. Factory soldiers will paste such signs on their machines. Not a bad slogan for everybody these days

Slogan for a production army. 1) What could be fairer than this? The a...

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Thomas C. Blaisdell, Assistant Director of the National Resources Planning Board (left); Robert R. Nathan, Assistant Director of Progress Reports, War Production Board (right); and Fred Searles, Consultant on Ordnance, Ammunition Division, U.S. Army(standing). The three-man planning committee which acts in an advisory capacity to Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board

Thomas C. Blaisdell, Assistant Director of the National Resources Plan...

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War production drive poster. "Exhaust the Big Inflated Jap." This poster was very effective because it made use of the product--exhausts--made by the section of the Westinghouse factory in which it was displayed. The labor-management committee kept it up to date with production figures

War production drive poster. "Exhaust the Big Inflated Jap." This post...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds for Army trucks are piled up in the Dodge Company's Lynch Road plant, in Detroit. Approximately 250 sets are required for each day's production. This makes a tremendous stock covering a huge arsenal at the plant

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds...

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War Production Board poster. Poster produced by the WPB for distribution to shipyards. The original is 28 1/2 inches by 40 inches and is printed in full color. It was designed by the Office of War Information (OWI) from a painting by C.C. Beall. Copies may be obtained from Central Distribution Service, Office of Emergency Management (OEM), 1516 14th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.

War Production Board poster. Poster produced by the WPB for distributi...

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Captain A.B. Reed, U.S. Navy (Retired), liaison officer, Navy, and Office of Production Management (OPM)

Captain A.B. Reed, U.S. Navy (Retired), liaison officer, Navy, and Off...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant replenishment now that M-3 tanks have reached a mass production schedule. These are wheel suspension lever forgings, stored outside the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit where 10,000 workers are turning out twenty-eight ton rolling arsenals for the Army

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant re...

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Poster issued by Bureau of Industrial Conservation of the War Production Board (WPB), and released by the Office for Emergency Management (OEM) urging householders to contribute waste materials for victory. This poster will be distributed on a national scale and will appear in the nation's store windows, schools, post offices, etc.

Poster issued by Bureau of Industrial Conservation of the War Producti...

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Production. Copper. Conveyor belts carrying copper ore through a tunnel at the Magna mill of the Utah Copper Company. Its plants at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes

Production. Copper. Conveyor belts carrying copper ore through a tunne...

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Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn Michigan. Here radically new techniques of mass production have been developed and put in use. Machine tools and dies produced at this plant themselves make mass production easier and more rapid in other factories throughout the country. The building covers 8 1/2 acres; employs 4,500 skilled workers; equipped with 3 million dollars worth of machinery. Many machinists are being trained for the Navy, here by mechanics, tool and die makers

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn...

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Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headquarters, speaking before labor-management committee members at Hazleton, July 30th

Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headqu...

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Production. Diesel engines. Plant policeman at a big Midwest manufacturing plant producing diesel engines for the Navy

Production. Diesel engines. Plant policeman at a big Midwest manufactu...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage.Thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriages on the assembly line. After the frame has been assembled these workers start to assemble the various parts. Bearing ring for the gun mount, outrigger mountings, etc. War Program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage.Thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun ca...

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Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headquarters, speaking before labor-management committee members at Scranton, July 29th

Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headqu...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Safely factors are not forgotten in rush orders for war production. This worker who handles hot ingots in the rolling mill, wears these size fifteen aluminum toe guards to protect his feet

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Safely factors...

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Steel production. Molten steel for war industries. A ladle of molten iron is poured into an opne hearth furnace for coversion into steel. Note safety latch on the crane hook. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Molten steel for war industries. A ladle of molten i...

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Biography of a Liberty Ship. Birth of a ship. Less than five months from keel laying to launching ceremony was the record set by the Patrick Henry. This time is being reduced to 60 days in the construction of her sister ships of the "Liberty Ship" design. This standard design was selected by the Martime Commission to meet the need for ships that can be built in existing yards in minimum time with the additional purpose of conserving materials vitally needed for the war production effort. Prefabrication of sections in special plants, replacing of riveting wherever possible by welding and other new departures all contribute to the speed of construction and saving of material and dead weight in these ships which are already proving their worth in the war on the Axis

Biography of a Liberty Ship. Birth of a ship. Less than five months fr...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. He has a vital job in the manufacture of forty-millimeter Bofors gun mounts and carriages. This arc welder wearing a protective mask is completing a skilled operation on part of a gun mount in a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. He has a vital job in the manufacture ...

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Airplane seat production. Each piece of aluminum necessary to the manufacture of airplane pilot seats must be thoroughly checked before being assembled in this large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. Should the precision gauge show up the tiniest imperfection in placement or drilling operations, the stamping will be discarded

Airplane seat production. Each piece of aluminum necessary to the manu...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A worker tests the smooth working precision of the elevating mechanism assembly of a thirty-seven-millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage. Planes of 300 miles an hour and better present a fast-moving target which requires precision operation in the anti-aircraft gun that must follow their flight to protect America's lives and property. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A worker tests the smooth working precision...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage workers. Workers assembling the elevating mechanism of one of America's many new thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriages. These guns will soon take their place in the protection of our soil against the best-armoured and the fastest-flying planes that our enemies can produce. Scene in a Pennsylvania engineering plant now converted almost entirely to America's war program production. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage workers. Workers assembling the elevating me...

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Production. Tin smelting. Storage piles of slag at a Southern tin smelter that extracts the pure metal from South American ore. This slag is reintroduced to the smelting process as many times as it is able to yield up useful constituents. The large amount of pure tin produced at this plant serves to meet many of the countless war demands of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. Storage piles of slag at a Southern tin smel...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured here, is included in the conversion of a jukebox manufacturing company to war production. Control instruments based on the jukebox selection device will be manufactured for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the dispatching department at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, hauls another load of vital materials to the proper department. 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 woman employee in the dis...

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Production. War housing trailers. Overcoming metal shortage is a big problem in trailer manufacture. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles has been able to replace metal fenders (wheel wells) successfully with plastic material made by a new process. Paper of forty pounds weight runs from rolls to a tent containing a glue-like solution. After it absorbs this solution, the operator breaks its stiffness by wadding and squeezing

Production. War housing trailers. Overcoming metal shortage is a big p...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Making a weld on a filter head in the ammonia synthesis system at 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. Ma...

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A bronze collar is fitted on a shell for the Army in a converted automobile plant. Much of the production machinery was switched to the new work with little change, some was changed more radically and some new machinery was installed. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A bronze collar is fitted on a shell for the Army in a converted autom...

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Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with his labor. Dr. Bair, former college professor and holder of eleven degrees, heads the war production drive as a sub-contractor. He saws steel bullets to required sizes on power saws

Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with hi...

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War alarm clocks. 1,700,000 of them will be produced this year to meet demand that was normally 12,000,000. Will be distributed by all pre-war alarm clock manufacturers. War alarms are of the hand-wound type, not nearly as durable as pre-war models. The case, about 6 x 6 x 2 1/2 inches, is of molded pressed wood and paper pulp. Mechanism contains only about 1/10 ounce brass and 6 1/2 ounce of steel, compared to pre-war average use in the low-priced alarm clocks of 6 and 13 ounces respectively. For this reason, and since the programmed supply for the year will barely cover the needs of workers in directly war-essential occupations, War Production Board (WPB) has requested that no one buy a war alarm unless it satisfies real need, not merely want, wish, or whim

War alarm clocks. 1,700,000 of them will be produced this year to meet...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Sets of three-bladed propellers for Lockheed P-38 pursuit ships are prepared for installation at a large Western aircraft plant. After the propellers have been installed, the ships will be put through exacting inspection and trial flights. If these prove satisfactory, the new fighter planes will be delivered to the Army

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Sets of three-bladed propell...

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Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Woman working on the fuselage of a "Valiant" basic trainer in the final assembly line at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Woman working on the fu...

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A huge forge manner is taken off its regular peacetime duties in an automobile plant and put on war Production. When workmen have finished their conversion job, the big fellow began shaping crankshafts for defense. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A huge forge manner is taken off its regular peacetime duties in an au...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). A gathering machine in the bindery room of the printing and duplicating section. This twenty-thousand dollar machine binds twenty pages at a time and turns out 3,000 bound sets an hour. It works twenty-four hours a day for the WPB

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). A gathering m...

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

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Woman bucking rivets on...

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War production drive. This mechanical bulletin board was sponsored by the labor-management committee in a factory making munitions. As each of the three divisions turned out products, the shells rose on the scoreboard. As each shell rose, the trousers on the corresponding figure fell

War production drive. This mechanical bulletin board was sponsored by ...

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Ray H. Haun, Southern Supervisor, General Salvage Section, Conservation Division, War Production Board

Ray H. Haun, Southern Supervisor, General Salvage Section, Conservatio...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Check-signing machines used by the WPB for signing preference ratings to validate priorities documents. The small machine at the left is used more frequently than the larger older models at the right

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Check-signing...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Miles of preformed aluminum alloy tubing are placed on racks in stockrooms ready for assembly in bomber and fighter planes built at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, where women are fast taking over the jobs of the stockmen. 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. Miles of preformed aluminum...

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Big gun in the raw. Heating the cylinder for a large gun preparatory to forging it. Production of these guns for the war program is going ahead at top speed in eleven Navy arsenals throughout the country

Big gun in the raw. Heating the cylinder for a large gun preparatory t...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A tail fuselage for a consolidated B-24 bomber is being lowered to place in a fuselage meting fixture at a Western aircraft plant. Here, tail fuselage, wing center section and nose section are joined. This bomber carries a heavy bomb load and is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high-accuracy boming missions. 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. A tail fuselage for a co...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. The metal structure for a rudder on a B-25 bomber is assembled by North American employees in the control surface department at Inglewood, California. The part will next move to the covering department for its fabric cover. Women are fast taking the places of men in this department. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mutchell") 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 metal structure for a r...

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America's production chief. "You see, sir, it's like this..." A typical candid glimpse of Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), as he explains an intricate problem to a visitor. Mr. Nelson has a methodical approach to work, weighing all sides of a problem before he makes a decision

America's production chief. "You see, sir, it's like this..." A typica...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The victory labor-management production committee of the Butte mines meets regularly. In the back row from left to right are: J.A. Livingston, Anacnoda Copper Mining Company; E.I. Renouard, assistant general superintendent, ACM; H.J. Rahilly, assistant general superintendent, ACM; Charles Black, Butte miners' union; John Downs, boiler makers' union; W.J. McMahon, commissioner of labor of ACM; John F. Bird, electricians' union; J.P. Ryan, foreman of ACM; Ira Steck, superintendent, electrical department of ACM; James Cusick, machinists' union; John J. Mickelson, Butte miners' union; Eugene Hogan, superintendent ACM. In the front row reading from left to right are: S.S. McGlone, general superintendent, ACM; Bert Riley, Butte miners' union; Dennis McCarthy, Butte miners' union; A.C. Gibley, ACM; Carl Stenberg, painters' union; John Eathorne, foreman of ACM; John Gaffney, carpenters' union

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The victory labor-mana...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A women worker at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, attaches clips and accessories to a wing section before the parts meets the next assembly. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A women worker at the Long B...

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Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared for testing in a large Eastern plant given over almost entirely to the manufacture of transformers. Transformers are vital to almost every phase of war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared f...

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Clerical workers processing forms for production requirement plan, Priorities Division, War Production Board (WPB)

Clerical workers processing forms for production requirement plan, Pri...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Engineers at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, prepare drawings for the making of a new plane model. 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. Engineers at the Inglewood,...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating 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, and 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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War production drive. One of the discoveries made by labor-management committees is that posters and streamers are more effective if they are on moving objects. The committee in the Minneapolis plant of the Northern Pump Company keeps effective streamers on the forty-ton cranes

War production drive. One of the discoveries made by labor-management ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Preparing an experimental scale model of the B-25 bomber for the wind tunnel tests in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. The model maker is adjusting the empennage to its correct position. 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. Preparing an experimental ...

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destroy the Axis. The owner of this small Midwest factory inspects dies for making incendiary bombs. Note doll's furniture on the wall, the company's previous product. Complete conversion of all machines for this factory's production of war essentials is rapidly taking place. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destro...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war production at National Youth Administration school

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for ...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. Women workers at the Long Beach, California plant of Douglas Aviation Company groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and RAF (Royal Air Force) 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 in varying combinations

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Women workers at the Long Beach, Cali...

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War Production Board Administrative Division "flexible" master organization chart of the WPB on which the offices and lines of authority are designated by movable tabs for organizational changes

War Production Board Administrative Division "flexible" master organiz...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserved. Casings for the big landing wheels of C-47 transport planes in 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. Why civilian tires must be conserve...

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Production. Pipe fittings. The V-belt drive of the world's largest machine of its kind, a nine inch upsetter. The machine is used in a Midwest plant to forge 75 mm shells for the Army. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. The V-belt drive of the world's largest mac...

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Giant tire manufacturer. A steady stream of large, rugged tires for Uncle Sam's fighting forces, like those above, is now in mass production at this large Eastern plant. Here workmen are shifting newly vulcanized tires to conveyor lines that will take them to final inspection department. They are then shipped to the fighting forces to help build the ever-increasing number of mobile and mechanized units in America's hard-striking war machine

Giant tire manufacturer. A steady stream of large, rugged tires for Un...

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Citation winner. Joseph H. Kautsky (center), citation winner, 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. Kautsky is being congratulated by Senator Claude D. Pepper. At left is Vice Chairman of the War Production Board

Citation winner. Joseph H. Kautsky (center), citation winner, an emplo...

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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. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Applying lagging on low-pressure heat interchanger piping in 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. Ap...

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Washington, D.C. Two of the members who attended the first meeting of the War Production Board (WPB) held in the conference room of the new Social Security Building were Henry A. Wallace, chairman of the Board of Economic Welfare and William S. Knudsen, director general of the Office of Production Management (OPM)

Washington, D.C. Two of the members who attended the first meeting of ...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work, on the production of cube steak machinery to spout cutting for war subcontracts. Cube Steak Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of ...

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Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband went into the air corps, Mary Saverick makes parachute harnesses for him and all the other husbands and brothers in the corps. "He's doing all he can to help win the war," she says, "it's only right that I should, too." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband ...

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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Instructor John Wanelik, of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey, shows Veronica Stephens how to grind a stripping angle on a cartridge drawing die. A number of young women are being trained for war production jobs in this shop

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Instructor John Wanelik, o...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Many detail operations in the making of Oerliken magazines for 20mm anti-aircraft guns are performed by regualar employees of a converted cash register factory now on war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Many detail operations in...

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Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--the kind of food that is being sent overseas to save shipping space. From left to right: Leon Henderson, Price Administrator; Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB).

Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--...

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. One of the owners of an Eastern manufacturing company explains the workings of a soundproof auxiliary engine cover to a friend. He's producing this engine cover on an experimental basis now, along with small aircraft parts, instead of the egg poachers and frying pans he used to make before converting his plant to war production. This cover will enclose motors used on four-engine bombers to take care of retracting gear and other essentials not connected with the main drive engine. Precision Metal Company, New York City, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. One of the owners of an Eas...

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Women aircraft workers. Women are doing men's jobs and beating their production records in a West Coast airplane factory. Feminine operators of tapping machines in this plant have made 400 more tapping operations in the seven and one half hour swingw shift than men employed on the eight hour day shift. A record in anybody's language

Women aircraft workers. Women are doing men's jobs and beating their p...

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Citation winners. Citation winner, Clinton E. Hanna, (right) of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winners. Citation winner, Clinton E. Hanna, (right) of the We...

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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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School in war. Los Angeles Polytechnic High. A corner of the tool room in the machine shop of the Los Angeles, Polytechnic High School. This shop is kept busy every day from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. the next morning, training workers for war production jobs in the Los Angeles area

School in war. Los Angeles Polytechnic High. A corner of the tool room...

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Rochester, New York. Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company, who developed a visual-lamp indicator to test field telephone switchboards and which the U.S. Army Signal Corps claims has saved the equivalent of almost thirty-seven years work, shown at his testing instrument. He received one of the first five "Citations of Individual Production Merit" for his idea which has an outstanding effect on the entire war effort

Rochester, New York. Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for ...

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Women in industry. Tool production. "X" marks the kind of work being done by these women cutoff machine operators who are processing small machine parts in a Midwest drill and tool plant. Although this work is relatively unskilled, industrial experience was new to most of the women, many of whom had previously been waitresses, schoolteachers, or saleswomen. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. "X" marks the kind of work being ...

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Production. War housing trailers. When windows are in place, opaque blackout blinds are installed in war housing trailers under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Light-weight shields are installed at the top and sides to prevent light leaks

Production. War housing trailers. When windows are in place, opaque bl...

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Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for combat planes and boats. A huge hydraulic press operating at high temperature and a pressure of 250 pounds per square inch attaches glue-surfaced veneer sheets to lumber-core panels to make high-grade plywood for Army and Navy uses. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for ...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. An acetylene torch is rolled into place with a big job scheduled for it, the dismantling of auto production equipment in an automobile factory, so that conversion to war production can begin. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. An acetylene torch is rolled into pla...

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Manpower. Negro arsenal workers. Workers of many races contribute their skills to help crush the Axis. Six months after he graduated from high school, Robert Mason was speeding war production in a large Eastern arsenal of democracy. This Negro worker is an apprentice machinist. Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood, Maryland

Manpower. Negro arsenal workers. Workers of many races contribute thei...

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Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for trailer wheel wells at the Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. The picture shows the close bond between successive layers of paper smoothed on over a forging mold. The secret of the final hardness and the strength of the material lies in the formula of the solution with which the paper is impregnated. Round corners of the trailer toes, formerly made of metal, are also made by this process

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for...

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New York, New York. Editor Griswold of the Office of Production Management (OPM) News meeting with Navy officials. They are, left to right: Lieutenant Commander E.U. Rinehart, U.S. Naval Reserve, senior naval adviser of the Third Naval District; Commander J.B. Goode, senior assistant to the Inspector of Naval Material; Lieutenant J.C. Ten Eyck, Jr., U.S. Naval Reserve, Office of Progress of the Office of Inspector of Naval Material; and Rear Admiral H.L. Brinser, U.S. Navy, Inspector of Naval Material

New York, New York. Editor Griswold of the Office of Production Manage...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The fabric department at Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation is the only department that had women employees before the war. Here, women sew the covering and control surface parts for bomber and fighter 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 on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The fabric department at In...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Lowering one of the four engines of a mighty consolidated transport plane at a Western aircraft plant. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24, which 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 and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Lowering one of the four...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is employed by a New England company, whose normal peacetime product is cube steak machinery. The drill press he operates was a valuable part of the company's peacetime equipment, is even more valuable today in the speeding of work on war subcontracts. New tooling and a large drill have fitted this press for the drilling of screw machine parts needed in new machine tools for war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Motor tune-up. Flight service mechanics are shown here warming up the motor of a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber prior to the ship's take-off for a test flight at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. 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. Motor tune-up. Flight ser...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Safety record at Vultee's Nashville plant. Department safety record board showing the number of work days one department spent on the production of "Vengeance" dive bombers without a lost-time accident. 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. Safety record at Vultee's...

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New York, New York. Mayor La Guardia of New York City autographing the illustration of a cartoon idea he submitted at an exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production, sponsored by the OWI (Office of War Information)

New York, New York. Mayor La Guardia of New York City autographing the...

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Wartime conservation through home sewing is demonstrated by Powers model Cynthia Hope who works with a fabric-saving dress pattern. All patterns are now adjusted to WPB (War Production Board) conservation rules. Average saving: 1/8 yard per dress. Cynthia cuts the top of her contrast dress with a remnant which would otherwise be wasted. Utilizing remnants saves tremendous yardage, gets smart results

Wartime conservation through home sewing is demonstrated by Powers mod...

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Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, Containers Division, for home canning of the Victory garden fruits and vegetables in 1943. First step in sealing a jar is to fit the wet, sterilized rubber ring around the projection on the underside of the glass lid, also sterilized

Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, C...

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New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenburg of the War Manpower Commission, and Louis Priscilla, a Chairman of the Committee on War Cartoons of the American Society of Magazine Cartoons, at the exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production sponsored by the OWI (Office of War Information)

New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenburg of the War Manpower Commission...

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Houses for Britain. Workmen assembling pre-fabricated temporary emergency house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease, at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. This two-bedroom dwelling was designed to utilize a minimum of critical materials, including lumber. Materials have been allotted to FEA by War Production Board, and the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency will undertake procurement of the houses

Houses for Britain. Workmen assembling pre-fabricated temporary emerge...

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The Jap way - cold-blooded murder We'll make them pay if you keep up production.

The Jap way - cold-blooded murder We'll make them pay if you keep up p...

Two Japanese soldiers with blindfolded, captured American pilot. Title transcribed from item. Promotional goal: U.S. J71. 1943. GPO no. 1943-O-556099. I.S.D. no. 101.

Miscellaneous collection of photographs of aircraft production

Miscellaneous collection of photographs of aircraft production

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Production. Copper. A rotary car dumper discharging copper ore at the large crushing plant of the Magna mill of the Utah Copper Company. Its plants at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war production

Production. Copper. A rotary car dumper discharging copper ore at the ...

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Production. Copper. Flotation machines at one of the copper concentrators of the Utah Copper Company. Its plants at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes

Production. Copper. Flotation machines at one of the copper concentrat...

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War Production Board poster (WPB). "Beware Jap-Germs." This is one of a series of "Jap-Germs" posters that were spread through the Westinghouse plant at Bloomfield, New Jersey, under the auspices of the labor-management committee. The two-headed figure, the Jap-Germ, was featured in all posters of the series which warned against sabotage and encouraged the objectives of the war production drive

War Production Board poster (WPB). "Beware Jap-Germs." This is one of ...

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Donald M. Nelson, Chairman, War Production Board

Donald M. Nelson, Chairman, War Production Board

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Production. Copper. Tapping copper slag at the Garfield, Utah smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company. This plant is producing vast quantities of the copper needed for war purposes

Production. Copper. Tapping copper slag at the Garfield, Utah smelter ...

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War production drive poster: "Let's Kick Hitler Into Hell." This display was particularly effective in a Midwestern plant that is increasing production with a war production drive. As weekly production comes off the line, the foot rises and tumbles Hitler into the bucket when the quota is reached

War production drive poster: "Let's Kick Hitler Into Hell." This displ...

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Steel Production. Production of iron for steel making tops all world records. An Eastern blast furnace swells the volume for victory. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania

Steel Production. Production of iron for steel making tops all world r...

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