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California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welder working on the hull of a Liberty ship

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California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welder working on the hull of a Liberty ship

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Working on a ship

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Workmen coming ashore from a ferry

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welder working on a double bottom section

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Workmen coming ashore from a ferry

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welder working on a double bottom section

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welders at work

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welders at work

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Row of Liberty ships in various stages of completion

California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Welder working on the hull of a Liberty ship

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1942
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Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.) ,  33.78000, -118.26250
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

label_outline Explore Wilmington Los Angeles Calif, Wilmington, Welder

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A section of a ship's bottom being lowered into place

A man works to install a submarine emergency communication transmitter (SEC) buoy Mark 9 Mod O outside the pressure hull and inside the other hull of a simulated submarine hull section during testing at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. When put into fleet use the SECT will be released and act as a surface marker if and when the ship is sunk

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Pietro Cressano worked at the yard for seven months, and was in building construction work before that. He was born in America but both parents were born in Italy

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

Egyptian Marines carry their RHIB (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat) amphibious assault boat onto the Navy assault craft. Marines and naval personnel from numerous nations are active participants in both the sea and the beaches of Egypt during this year's BRIGHT STAR 01-02 exercise. BRIGHT STAR is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that is designed to enhance regional stability and military-to-military cooperation among the US, our key allies, and our regional partners. It prepares US Central Command to rapidly deploy and employ the armed forces to deter aggressors and, if necessary, fight and win side-by-side with our allies and regional partners

No. 568, Hull no. 2, Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation, April 25, '19

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This maze of rolling cranes, at a large Eastern shipyard is a typical scene in many large shipyards at work on ships for Uncle Sam's Navy and merchant fleet. Stocks of material are piled up for the cranes to take to vessels under construction so there is no delay in production while waiting for sections or materials. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. The SS Booker T Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro slides down the ways at the Wilmington yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation at its launching on September 29, 1942

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Shell plates of a ship at the bow, where the inner plates are first bolted to the outer plates for added strength. The rivets are countersunk to be flush on the outer side. Production scene in a large Eastern shipyard. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

A North Carolina Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief stands on the flight line at Wilmington Airport, Wilmington, North Carolina. A US Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter is in the background

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Thousands of feet of insulated conductor wire that go into a North American B-25 bomber are sorted by this woman employee in the electrical assembly department at Inglewood, California. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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