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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers are turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. This man is checking the sub-assembly of a cupola to be installed on the top of a gun turret of one of these rolling arsenals

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers are turning ...

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A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop tests the accuracy of his work with a micrometer

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop ...

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Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

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Production. M-4 tanks. Better striking power and better protection for our soldiers are provided by the mighty M-4 tank. A machine operation on a tank turret is performed in an Eastern plant

Production. M-4 tanks. Better striking power and better protection for...

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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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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal,in Detroit,turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks. This pair is attaching a hinge plate to the cupola of a gun turret which will be set on one of these rolling arsenals

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge ...

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Winner of the plant award. David Danzig, an employee of the American Locomotive Company, Schenectady, New York, applies the fixture he suggested and designed for the facing and cutting champer on the small turret ring for the M-4 tank. The fixture is designed for three generations instead of two, saving one set-up

Winner of the plant award. David Danzig, an employee of the American L...

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Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. General view of the machine shop where tools used in turret construction are made on machines imported under the lend lease program

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plan...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a turret lathe under close supervision of a skilled machinist in a modern machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. 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 operates a...

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Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. Workmen operating an automatic tool machine. Ninety-five per cent of the machinery in this plant was imported under the lend lease program

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plan...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workmen operate Harding turret lathes in the foreground of this picture. Two newly arrived Pratt and Whitney lathes are seen in the background. All of this machinery was supplied under lend-lease

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

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Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old country" and European customs are maintained in his home, Michael Kassalo is as American as pork and beans. Michael's job as a vertical turret lathe operator in one of the Midwest's largest medium-tank plants gives him the satisfaction of producing weapons to defeat the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old coun...

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Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces on turret gun mount housings for M-3 tanks are rough planed and finished planed on a fifty inch by fifty inch four-head planer. The job is being done in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out naval sights and plane wing equipment

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces ...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro turret-lathe worker, who is receiving training in machine shop practice, learning a filing operation on a turret lathe

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A...

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In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is fini...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Close work is done on this milling machine, designed for work on the turret of the 75 mm gun with which M-3 tanks are eqipped. The fittings must be perfect, in order that the gun may have as much play as possible. Four turning, tools and two facing tools are used

Chrysler tank arsenal. Close work is done on this milling machine, des...

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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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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Turret rings for the Chrysler twenty-eight ton medium tanks are flame hardened. This skilled workers is one of the 10,000 producing M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Turret rings for the Chrysler twenty-eigh...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is machined in a turret lathe. The leveling assembly permits the gun to be kept on an even keel on all types of terrain. 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. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millim...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two turret-lathe workers, Negro and white, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, watching a cutting-off operation on a turret lathe

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. This is a milling operation. The four-pound metal piece with the aperture is actually the turret for a 37 mm anti-aircraft gun, part of the equipment for an M-3 tank. Extreme accuracy is required in the milling of these parts, because it is important that they be able to move freely. The gun is designed for straight away shooting, as well as serial shooting. The twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks are made in Detroit, at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal

Chrysler tank arsenal. This is a milling operation. The four-pound met...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Turret-lathe workers, Negro and white, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, carrying out an operation on a turret lathe

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixtures, for drilling and tapping holes in the 4,000 pound turret casting for the mounting plate of the 37 mm anti-aircraft gun of the Chrysler medium tank, the M-3. These twenty-eight ton steel monsters are being turned out in quantity by 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixture...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Traveling overhead hoists are used throughout the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit, for moving heavy castings from one production operation to another. These workers are removing the rotor casing for a 75 mm gun turret from a machine which grinds the outside rim. The twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks M-3s produced here carry 75 mm field guns and 37 mm anti-aircraft guns as well as several machine guns and other small arms

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Traveling overhead hoists are used throug...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. The firepower is inserted into the upper turret of an M-3 tank. These workers are installing an assembled 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, which will then be protected by armor plate. Although this gun is designed for anti-aircraft use, it may also be used for straightway firing

Chrysler tank arsenal. The firepower is inserted into the upper turret...

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Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. Fred Heath runs a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant, where he's been working since August 1941. He formerly worked in a machine shop in his native city Torrington. One of the first families to move into the new war workers' homes in Bantam, the Heaths, who have been married for five years, had previously been living in a furnished room in Torrington. Mrs. Heath formerly lived in Winsted, a town of about 25,000 people just a dozen miles from Torrington. They are proud of their new home and of the comfortable new furniture they bought on the installment plan in Torrington. They have besides the kitchen, a large living room, a modern bath, a medium-sized master bedroom and a smaller room for their three-year-old daughter, Ann

Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. Fred Heath runs a turret lath...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

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