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• Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Tank driver, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of the North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. The model maker holds an exact miniature reproduction of the type of bomb the plane will carry. This plant

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Smoke stacks (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Guide at Little Norway, Blue Mounds, Wis. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Lincoln, Nebraska (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1942
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• Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (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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• Smoke stacks (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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• American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• M-3 tank and crew using small arms, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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• Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• 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 f

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Smoke stacks (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Sailor at the Naval Air Base wears the new type protective clothing and gas mask designed for use in chemical warfare, Corpus Christi, Texas. These uniforms are lighter than the old type (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Boys playing marbles, FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Texas (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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• Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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• Tank commander, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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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 fo

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• Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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• Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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

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• A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under construction in a western aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. A front section of the plane shows in the background. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military pl

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• Seed and feed store, Lincoln, Nebr. (LOC)

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• Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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• Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)

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• Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)

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• Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs man

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• Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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

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• Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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• Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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• The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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• Migratory worker, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

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• Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge, Bingham Copper Mine, Utah (LOC)

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• Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, Inglewood, Calif. The heavy hemp rope is used to snub the hammer so that it forms the part under proper pre

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• Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. Ralph Angar, instructor, explains propeller characteristics to student[s] in the aeronautics class (LOC)

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• A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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• Lincoln, Nebraska (LOC)

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• Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

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• At Beecher Street School, whose student body consists of half Americans of Italian descent and half of Americans of Polish descent, Southington, Conn. The Queen of the May was Emily Schwak, of Polish extraction; the King, Philip D'Agostino, of Italian (L

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