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• Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f

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  • 23 comments
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort (LO

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• What’s the story here? (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1915
  • Date uploaded: 2015-01-30
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• Miss Maisie MacMaster, Portland, Ore. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-10-31
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