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• "Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mildred Webb, an NYA trainee at the base, is learning to operate a cutting machine in the Assembly and Repair Department. After about eight weeks as an apprentice s

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under civil service (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base, supervises Chas. Potter, a NYA trainee from Michigan, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks of training he will go into civil service. Should he be inducted or

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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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• 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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Duke is a civil service worker in the A[ssembly] and R[epair] dept. at the Navy Air Base (shot - reconditioning spark plugs) (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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• A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service w

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Lorena Craig is cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• C.M. Galloway (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1911
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