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Bantam, Connecticut. While Patsy DiGiovanni puts kapok through the filler machine, which fluffs it out, Chet Wash is stuffing the back cushion of bomber pilot's seat in the upholstery shop of the Warren McArthur Corporation. Patsy came to work here in April 1941, from his native Torrington, where he had been driving a taxicab. He still lives in Torrington. Wash learned upholstery on a NYA (National Youth Administration) project in his native town of Plains, Pennsylvania. He's been in Bantam since June 1941, living in a furnished room

Bantam, Connecticut. Norman Randall, right, bucks Alec Wasdo's rivets in a sub-assembly shop at the Warren McArthur aircraft seat plant. Randall is a native of Patchogue, Long Island, who came to Bantam from Lowell, Massachusetts, where he learned sheet metal work. He came to Bantam in the fall of 1941, and in December married a girl from Goshen, Connecticut, ten miles from Bantam. They are one of the four couples who honeymooned in the new defense homes project in Bantam. Alec Wasdo began work at Warren McArthur at the same time as Randall, but he drives to work from his former home in Waterbury. Wasdo was formerly a bartender, with no previous experience at factory work. He's already decided he prefers it to tending bar

Bantam, Connecticut. Norman Randall, right, bucks Alec Wasdo's rivets in a sub-assembly shop at the Warren McArthur aircraft seat plant. Randall is a native of Patchogue, Long Island, who came to Bantam from Lowell, Massachusetts, where he learned sheet metal work. He came to Bantam in the fall of 1941, and in December married a girl from Goshen, Connecticut, ten miles from Bantam. They are one of the four couples who honeymooned in the new defense homes project in Bantam. Alec Wasdo began work at Warren McArthur at the same time as Randall, but he drives to work from his former home in Waterbury. Wasdo was formerly a bartender, with no previous experience at factory work. He's already decided he prefers it to tending bar

Bantam, Connecticut. Assembling bomber seats at the Warren McArthur plant is Ralph DePino who commutes from Naugatuck, a heavy industrial town just below Waterbury. Depino came to America fourty-three years ago from his native Italy at the age of six months, and has been at the Bantam plant since June 1941. He formerly worked at Winchester Arms, in New Haven and at the Boston Navy Yard

Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is an expert upholstery worker. He once ran his own furniture shop in Pittsburgh, and before coming to Bantam in June of 1941, supervised an upholstery shop in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Stewart, a Buffalo girl whom he married in 1936, is also working in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. They left their furnished room in a Bantam farmhouse in January, 1942, to occupy a four-room flat in the new eighty-unit defense homes project a few minutes from the plant

A black and white photo of a family sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. Fred Heath runs a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant, where he's been working since August 1941. He formerly worked in a machine shop in his native city Torrington. One of the first families to move into the new war workers' homes in Bantam, the Heaths, who have been married for five years, had previously been living in a furnished room in Torrington. Mrs. Heath formerly lived in Winsted, a town of about 25,000 people just a dozen miles from Torrington. They are proud of their new home and of the comfortable new furniture they bought on the installment plan in Torrington. They have besides the kitchen, a large living room, a modern bath, a medium-sized master bedroom and a smaller room for their three-year-old daughter, Ann

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is an expert upholstery worker. He once ran his own furniture shop in Pittsburgh, and before coming to Bantam in June of 1941, supervised an upholstery shop in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Stewart, a Buffalo girl whom he married in 1936, is also working in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. They left their furnished room in a Bantam farmhouse in January, 1942, to occupy a four-room flat in the new eighty-unit defense homes project a few minutes from the plant

Bantam, Connecticut. While Patsy DiGiovanni puts kapok through the filler machine, which fluffs it out, Chet Wash is stuffing the back cushion of bomber pilot's seat in the upholstery shop of the Warren McArthur Corporation. Patsy came to work here in April 1941, from his native Torrington, where he had been driving a taxicab. He still lives in Torrington. Wash learned upholstery on a NYA (National Youth Administration) project in his native town of Plains, Pennsylvania. He's been in Bantam since June 1941, living in a furnished room

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