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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard) This man is a structural steel worker, one of the thousands of highly skilled workers whose brains and brawn are fashioning for Uncle Sam's new two-ocean Navy, the finest fleet of warcraft the world has ever seen

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard) This man is a structural steel worker...

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It takes the palm. A sailmaker wields palm and needle in the sail loft at an eastern Navy yard, as an apprentice looks on. The canvas is being prepared as a deck awning for one of Uncle Sam's warcraft

It takes the palm. A sailmaker wields palm and needle in the sail loft...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. Heat treatment is essential to develop the toughness necessary in the metal for U.S. warcraft. This worker is quenching a metal sheet which has just come from the furnace. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Heat treatment is essential to develop ...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These workers are red-leading a plate, to prevent corrosion. Only the highest quality materials will serve for the new warcraft under construction for Uncle Sam's two-ocean fleet

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These workers are red-leading a plate, to...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These two skillful workers are punching rivet holes in the frame of a ship on the ways. Nearly a million rivets were used in large naval warcraft until recently, but steel and weight is now conserved by the use of welded jointures whenever possible

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These two skillful workers are punching r...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is the sheet aluminum department, where this vital defense metal is cut and stamped for use aboard naval warcraft.

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is the sheet aluminum departmen...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Time out to lunch, then back to work on ships for the defense of America. These are workers in the plate shop, where steel plate is fashioned for Uncle Sam's warcraft. There are several cafeterias on the grounds

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Time out to lunch, then back to work...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This worker is in the plate-bender's shop, where steel plates are bent to fit the sidings of warcraft under construction. This is an operation requiring a high degree of skill

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This worker is in the plate-bender's...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Time out for lunch, then back to work on ships for the defense of America. These are workers in the plate shop, where steel plate is fashioned for Uncle Sam's warcraft. There are several cafeterias on the grounds

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Time out for lunch, then back to wor...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Huge naval guns are assembled in the gun shop for installation on the warcraft being built here for Uncle Sam's growing Navy

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Huge naval guns are assembled in the...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the last few years has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital parts of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This welder, working on the nose section of a new destroyer, is one of hundreds working on vessels under construction at Norfolk

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). One of the major advances in shipbui...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These workers are red-leading a pipe, to prevent corrosion. Only the highest quality materials will serve for the new warcraft under construction for Uncle Sam's two-ocean fleet

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These workers are red-leading a pipe, to ...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the past two decades has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital sections of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This is one of hundreds of welders employed at Newport News, working on the man-hole coaning for a new cruiser

Shipbuilding (Newport News). One of the major advances in shipbuilding...

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