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Marines finishing training at Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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One of America's new warships of the air, a mighty YB-17 bomber, is pulled up at a bombardment squadron hangar, Langley Field, Va. It is all set to taxi out to a runway and take off (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Naval Air Base, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Bomb bay gasoline tanks for long flights of B-25 bombers await assembly in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and th
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- 27 favorites
- 41,431 views
- Date taken: 1939
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FSA borrower and member of Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in the hills, vicinity of Yauco, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 41,429 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Aviation cadets at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end of the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 41,384 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Cadet L. Deitz(?) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (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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Aviation cadets in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 49 favorites
- 40,883 views
- Date taken: 1939
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In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 25 favorites
- 40,719 views
- Date taken: 1939
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This husky member of a construction crew building a new 33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox is performing an important war service, Ft. Knox, Ky. Thousands of soldiers are in training there, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisv
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- 40,519 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (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 North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. This plant produced the B-25 bomber (LOC)
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- 40,359 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Another North American B-25 bomber rolls off the final assembly line to join other ships on the outdoor assembly line, N[orth] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Ensign Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 40,313 views
- Date taken: 1939
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M-4 tank line, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR (LOC)
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- 40,224 views
- 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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M-3 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- 39,983 views
- Date taken: 1939
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A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 39,884 views
- Date taken: 1939
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New B-25 bombers lined up for final inspection and tests at the flying field of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. It performs at the 25,000-foot ceiling (LOC)
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- 39,867 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 39,727 views
- Date taken: 1939
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A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala. (LOC)
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- 50 favorites
- 39,609 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help. Town of Melrose Park is in back
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- 22 favorites
- 39,598 views
- Date taken: 1939
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M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A young soldier of the armored forces holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism. Infantryman with halftrack (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Crewman of an M-3 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sailor mechanic inspecting a PBY plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87
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- 31 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
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Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company Mills, Manchester, Conn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Aviation cadet at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Employees on the "Sunshine" assembly line at North American's plant put the finishing touches on another B-25 bomber, Inglewood, Calif. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the Assembly and Repair Dept. at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to completion, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Painting a car at the repair or "rip" tracks at North Proviso(?), C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Looking north on Woodward Ave., from the Maccabee[s] Building with the Fisher Building at the far left, and the Wardell Hotel at the middle right, Detroit, Mich. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR at 40th Street. On the tracks on the right are three streamliners, crack trains, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Navy N2S primary land planes at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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