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Gas welding a joint in a line of spiral pipe at the TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of
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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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- 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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Working with a sea-plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (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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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wis. 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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- 25 favorites
- 54,612 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, 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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Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide
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- Date taken: 1939
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Assembly and Repairs Dept. mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works on a Wright Whirlwind motor, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-1/2 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying
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- Date taken: 1939
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Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed on a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., checking to see if the proper numbers of parts were received and placed in the proper bin, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in Ge
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- 72 favorites
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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, Wisconsin (LOC)
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- 51,842 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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 (LOC)
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- 75 favorites
- 51,798 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Tank crew standing in front of an M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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J.D. Estes at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now [she is the] only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin (LOC)
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- 50,917 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Tank commander, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky. (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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- 50,210 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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Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 84 favorites
- 49,681 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[sas] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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War production worker at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts. Son [is] Second L[ieutenan]t, Son-in-law, Capt[ain] in Army (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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War Department Building at 21st and Virginia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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United Nations exhibit by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. View of entrance from 5th Avenue (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop, Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico) (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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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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Here's our mission. A combat crew receives final instructions just before taking off in a mighty YB-17 bomber from a bombardment squadron base at the field, Langley Field, Va. (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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Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashville, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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B-25 bombers lined up at North American Aviation, Incorporated, almost ready for their first test flight, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma, used to do office work. Removing paper from pilot's window(?), Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she
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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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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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Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude (LOC
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- Date taken: 1939
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Tank crew standing in front of M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Children stage a patriotic demonstration, Southington, Conn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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