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Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashville, Tennessee

Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashvill...

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Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with...

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War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the service

War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5...

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Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is ...

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Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Working with skill and precision, these women operate a spot welding machine in the largest single story building in the world, Ford's giant bomber plant at Willow Run, Michigan. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Working with skill and precision,...

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Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Jobs - get the facts about occupations - free classes for young men and women 16 to 25 yrs.--National Youth Administration of Illinois / Dusek.

Jobs - get the facts about occupations - free classes for young men an...

Poster shows a young woman holding books and a young man holding machine parts, with factories and city skyline below. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [...] See your local U.S. Employment Service.

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [.....

Woman working in an airplane factory. Based on a photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1943. OWI Poster No. 52. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study... More

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. 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

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombard...

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Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She buoys up feminine morale in her department by arranging suitable living conditions for out-of-state employees and by helping them with their personal problems

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior ...

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Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., A...

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Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraf...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Apply to your nearest Navy recruiting station or office of naval officer procurement John Falter, USNR

It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Ap...

Uniformed woman operating radio. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J7. 1942. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by She... More

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Show...

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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...

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Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service, Glenview, Ill. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children

Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after ...

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Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. 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

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman wo...

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Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run

Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, women of a large West Coast aircraft factory are speeding the installation of electrical units controlling the engine. In this, as in many other U.S. plants, women are gradually replacing or augmenting men on assembly lines, doing important and highly critical work and doing it well

Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, wo...

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

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Enola O'Connell, age thirty-two, widow and mother of one child, welding part of a trailer. She is the only woman welder in the plant. This is her first job outside her house

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company makin...

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It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Apply to your nearest Navy recruiting station or office of naval officer procurement John Falter, USNR

It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Ap...

Uniformed woman operating radio. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J7. 1942. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by She... More

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...

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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, worki...

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With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly a...

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"Even a little can help a lot - now"--Buy U.S. war stamps, bonds / A. Parker.

"Even a little can help a lot - now"--Buy U.S. war stamps, bonds / A. ...

Woman and girl pasting U.S. war stamps in books. Public domain photograph of stamp object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

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A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber 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

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant...

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraf...

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Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. 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

Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the ...

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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Two women employees work together with power shears at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. They are cutting sheet metal sections that will be formed into 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. Two women employees work to...

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Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Experienced women workers at the Willow Run bomber plant operate such machines as this Rockwell hardness tester (left). Beginners are given such tasks as numbering small machine parts (right). Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Experienced women workers at the ...

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New Britain, Connecticut. Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant

New Britain, Connecticut. Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Cla...

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"The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW Adolph Treidler

"The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW Adolph Trei...

Poster showing a woman ordnance worker, holding wrench, gazing up at a soldier with a rifle in the clouds in the background. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J7. 1943. Promotional goal: U.S. J44.J2. 1943.

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a flight instructor

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Ir...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A girl mechanic in a large Western aircraft plant rivets the belly of a new consolidated transport plane. The Cleco fasteners which protrude from the surface hold the sections of metal in place while the riveting job is being done. This new transport, adapted from 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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A girl mechanic in a la...

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Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.

Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background

Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas ...

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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., F...

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Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La., makes torpedo boats and other boats for the Navy

Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La., makes torpedo boats and ot...

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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., F...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are those above in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia County Vocational School. Left to right are Helen Cook, a former county courthouse clerk with a brother in the army; Ethel Chandler whose husband is an army lieutenant; Martha Adams, former nurse and now a housewife; Fannie Branum, housewife; Mabel McClintock, secretary and daughter of a retired army officer; and Patricia Blair, a housewife with a brother in the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, wa...

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"The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW Adolph Treidler

"The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW Adolph Trei...

Poster showing a woman ordnance worker, holding wrench, gazing up at a soldier with a rifle in the clouds in the background. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J7. 1943. Promotional goal: U.S. J44.J2. 1943.

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif.

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., p...

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Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Wort...

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Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. 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

Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the ...

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Food to make America strong. Women near Rochelle, Illinois, many of them schoolteachers and pupils, work in asparagus canning factories during the summer months

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Food to make America strong. Wom...

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From National Youth Administration (NYA) to Washington navy yard. Beginning as a helper at $4.56 a day in the Washington navy yard, Miss Juanita E. Gray graduate trainee of the National Youth Adminstration War Production and Training Center now earns $45 a week. More than 300 NYA trained Negro women are now working in the Washington navy yard and scores are being added monthly

From National Youth Administration (NYA) to Washington navy yard. Begi...

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Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. 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

Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes i...

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Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembl...

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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.

Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail i...

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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-year-old Annie Tabor as one of their best lathe operators, despite her lack of previous industrial experience. Employed by a large Midwest supercharger plant, this young woman machines parts of aircraft engines. Like many other young Negro girls, she had known only

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-ye...

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Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic in the Assembly and Repair Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic ...

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A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, ...

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Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidate...

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War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production Board (WPB) to U.S. employment service offices, beauty parlors, women's colleges, manufacturers, etc. The original is 28 12 inches by 40 inches and is printed in red, blue, and black on white. The poster was reproduced from a photograph by Office of War Information photographer, Howard Hollem. Copies may be obtained from Central Distribution Plant, Office for Emergency Management (OEM), 1509 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production ...

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War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, to labor management committees. The original, size 28 1/2 inches by 40 inches, may be obtained from war production drive headquarters, War Production Board (WPB), Washington, D.C.

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the Ordnance Depart...

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