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High above, over a true "home of the brave," the floating folds of the Star Spangled Banner symbolize the American way of life to soldiers in training for the battles that will bring freedom to an unhappy, war-torn world, Fort Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice shooting with a 30-calibre Browning machine gun, Fort Knox, Ky. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Browning machine gunner, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transmission line towers and high tension lines that carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, near Sheffield, Ala. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transmission line towers and high tension lines that carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, near Sheffield, Ala. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Section of one of the switchyards from which high tension lines carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installatio
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- 28,230 views
- Date taken: 1939
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The countryside near the TVA site of the Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be
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- 30 favorites
- 40,060 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Switch yard at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, vicinity of Sheffield, Ala., 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Eight generator units in the generator room of a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which
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- 19 favorites
- 30,315 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, North American, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Employees at North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling the cowling on Allison motors for the P-51 fighter planes, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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 ado
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- Date taken: 1939
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 39,640 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Front view of the Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York state (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York state (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The water stretching machine of an eastern parachute manufacturer stretches shroud lines so as to make them more adaptable to the finished product, Manchester, Conn. (LOC)
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- 23,475 views
- Date taken: 1939
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The utmost precision is required of these operators who are cutting and drilling parachute packs in an eastern factory, Manchester, Conn. Their work is under constant close supervision. Pioneer Parchute Company (LOC)
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- 32,956 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Looking west from the Maccabees Building (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Looking down on a parking lot from the rear of the Fisher Building, Detroit, Mich. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Marine glider at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Marine glider at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine glider pilot at Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine lieutenant, glider pilot in training, at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Preparing for take-off at the glider pilot training program, Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine Corps gliders being towed from Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine Corps glider in flight out of Parris island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine Corps glider in flight out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine Corps glider in flight, out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Training gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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Marine lieutenants, pilots, by the power tow-plane for the training gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama (LOC)
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