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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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Parris Island, S.C., barrage balloon (LOC)

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

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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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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• Smoke stacks (LOC)

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

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 90 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• M-4 tank crews of the United States, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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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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• 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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• 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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• Tank crew standing in front of M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (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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• M-4 tank line, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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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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• M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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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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• Crewman of an M-3 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• Slag run-off from open hearth furnace, Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio (LOC)

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• Infantryman with halftrack, a young soldier of the armed 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. (LOC)

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• M-3 tanks and crews, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• Welder at work on Douglas Dam, Tenn. (TVA) (LOC)

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• "Big Pete" Ramagos, rigger at work on dam (TVA) Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)

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• White-hot steel pours like water from a 35-ton electric furnace, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion

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• Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the

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• Halftrack infantryman with Garand rifle, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• Slag run-off from one of the open hearth furnaces of a steel mills, Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio. Slag is drawn off the furnace just before the molten steel is poured into ladles for ingotting (LOC)

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• Blast furnaces and iron ore at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation mills, Etna, Pennsylvania (LOC)

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• Light tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• Switch yard at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, vicinity of Sheffield, Ala., 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River (LOC)

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• Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a

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• Halftrack infantryman with Garand rifle, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)

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• Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)

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