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North American Aviation's B-25 medium bomber, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Capping and inspecting tubing: two women are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French.
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 4 comments
- 37 favorites
- 64,898 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Garage mechanic near Newark, N.J. Badge denotes member of Office of Defense Transportation (LOC)
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- 76 favorites
- 64,755 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 64,680 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm (LOC)
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- 76 favorites
- 64,650 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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-housewife, age 24, filing small parts. Her husband and brother are in the armed service (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 76 favorites
- 63,138 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service any day, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Agnes used to work in a dep[artmen]t store. Checking of gasoline hose of gasoline trailers before being turned over the Air Force (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A soldier and a woman in a park, with the Old [Russell] Senate Office Building behind them, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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, wartorn world, Fort Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- 54 favorites
- 62,373 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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P-51 "Mustang" fighter in flight, Inglewood, Calif. The "Mustang", built by North American Aviation, Incorporated, is the only American-built fighter used by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain (LOC)
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- 131 favorites
- 61,681 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 61,218 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 42 favorites
- 61,217 views
- Date taken: 1939
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A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 [i.e., B-25] attack bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Formerly a sociology major at the University of Southern California, Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis (right) now "keeps 'em flyin'" at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She is a supervisor under civil service in the Assembly and Repair Department. It is her
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- 130 favorites
- 60,726 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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One of the girls of Vilter [Manufacturing] Co. filing small gun parts, Milwaukee, Wisc. One brother in Coast Guard, one going to Army. (LOC)
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- 101 favorites
- 60,053 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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 serv
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- 3 comments
- 66 favorites
- 59,848 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 59,752 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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 (LOC)
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- 59,538 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, a
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- 58 favorites
- 59,494 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 81 favorites
- 59,347 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Toni Frissell, sitting, holding camera on her lap, with several children standing around her, somewhere in Europe] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1945
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The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The kind of man Hitler wishes we didn't have. A bomber pilot, captain in a bombardment squadron, just before he climbs aboard his huge YN-17 bombing plane (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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United Nations exhibit put on by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Central motif was this frame containing copy of Atlantic charter, with amplifiers at each end broadcasting speeches by Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek every half hour, and
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Parade of M-4 (General Sherman) and M-3 (General Grant) tanks in training maneuvers, Ft. Knox, Ky. Note the lower design of the M-4, the larger gun in the turret and the two hatches in front of the turret (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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 (LOC)
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- 58,227 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 73 favorites
- 58,132 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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B-25 bomber planes at the North American Aviation, Incorporated being hauled along an outdoor assembly line with an "International" tractor, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. (LOC)
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- 57,915 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Member[s] of the experimental staff at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, observe wind tunnel tests on an accurate scale model of the B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 bomber, used in Gener
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 56,980 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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M-4 tank crews of the United States, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- 56,101 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Dept. of the Naval Air Base, talking with one of the men, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army (LOC)
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- 55,414 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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