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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
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine in North American's sheet metal department, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the Naval Air Base (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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