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Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. : Pattern cutting / / OEM photo by Gruber.

Bantam, Connecticut. One of the new processes brought into the Warren McArthur plant to speed up work in the filling of defense orders is this electric welder. It's being operated by William Choly, nineteen, who learned welding while in the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and NYA (National Youth Administration). He came here from Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania

Bill, a carrying-in boy, Canton Glass Works, Marion, Ind. Gets $.80 a day or night. Others below fourteen, too. Location: Marion, Indiana.

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Kennon

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman worker rivets a nacelle door in the sheet metal sub-assembly department of the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Civilian Firefighters USING Stirrup Pump, England, UK, 1941 D3541

Week in the Life - Coast Guard Buoy Depot

Ånglok, Lokeldare i arbete. Sverige

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Drilling holes for rivets in a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The rim of an army helmet is formed on a press from steel rod. Finished rims are shown on the hook below the operator's right hand. The helmets are made in an Eastern plant converted by retooling from the production of automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. An army helmet is formed from a flat piece of sheet steel in one operation at a drawing press in a converted Eastern factory. A short time ago this same press and operator were stamping out parts for automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. An army helmet is formed from a flat piece of sheet steel in one operation at a drawing press in a converted Eastern factory. A short time ago this same press and operator were stamping out parts for automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The front visor of a steel army helmet is "spanked," or formed into shape. The helmet had an oval shape before this operation, which is performed on one of the many presses of an Eastern plant that formerly made automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The front visor of a steel army helmet is "spanked," or formed into shape. The helmet had an oval shape before this operation, which is performed on one of the many presses of an Eastern plant that formerly made automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Joining a steel reinforcing rim on an army helmet. The stamping press that performs this operation is one of many that formerly turned out auto radiator parts for an Eastern manufacturer. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army. Continuous chain conveyors in the stamping department of a converted auto radiator plant where presses form helmets from sheet steel and trim them at the edges. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army. Continuous chain conveyors in the stamping department of a converted auto radiator plant where presses form helmets from sheet steel and trim them at the edges. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Before a large Eastern manufacturer of automobile radiators converted to war production, this workman's job was soldering radiator cores. His job now is welding rims on army helmets. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The rim of an army helmet is formed on a press from steel rod. Finished rims are shown on the hook below the operator's right hand. The helmets are made in an Eastern plant converted by retooling from the production of automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

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michigan wayne county detroit safety film negatives conversion auto radiators auto radiators army helmets army helmets rim press steel rod steel rod hook operator hand right hand eastern plant eastern plant production automobile automobile radiators mccool radiator company mccool radiator company 1940s 40s united states history workers 1940 s detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for R-1340 Wasp planes are inspected in a large Eastern plant now producing a huge number of fine American engines for our fighting air forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Joshua Lucier, on temporary duty to the 48th Component Repair Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, from the 3rd Component Repair Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base Alaska, actuates a 380 pump compressing engine case for support rod removal. (Duplicate image, see also DF-SD-01-08494 or search 010122-F-4177H-008)

David Addington and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the Department of Education Office For the Swearing-In of Secretary Rod Paige

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 years old, finger badly cut and wrapped up. Said, "the salt gets unto the cut." Said he makes $1.50 some days. Left end, Clarence Goodell, 6 years, helps brother. Location: Eastport, Maine

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Normally used in manufacture of floor waxers, as shown here, this five-spindle drill press is now used full-time on defense orders for which this small Eastern plant is under subcontract. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. These workers are transferring the templates designs, or patterns, to steel, to be used in ships under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. 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. M-4 tanks. Better striking power and better protection for our soldiers are provided by the mighty M-4 tank. A machine operation on a tank turret is performed in an Eastern plant

A black and white photo of two men working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

SPC Michael Brumley of the 155th Transportation Company radios instructions to the crane operator as soldiers hook up a container of chemical munitions in the hold of the Military Sealift Command auxiliary crane ship GOPHER STATE (T-ACS-4) during Operation Steel Box. The munitions will be taken to the U.S. Army Chemical Activity on the atoll for storage and disposal

Hook Windmill, North Main Street at Pantigo Road, East Hampton, Suffolk County, NY

A group of business people standing in front of the word management. Personal group silhouettes.

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michigan wayne county detroit safety film negatives conversion auto radiators auto radiators army helmets army helmets rim press steel rod steel rod hook operator hand right hand eastern plant eastern plant production automobile automobile radiators mccool radiator company mccool radiator company 1940s 40s united states history workers 1940 s detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress