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An Iraqi orderly waits for another offload of medical supplies given to the Umm Qasr Hospital, and delivered by members of 1ST Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF), 3rd Civil Affairs Group (3 CAG), who are here in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. To the right, Major (MAJ) Simon Kirby (British Soldier) stands by, armed with a 5.56 mm L85A1 Individual Weapon and keeps watch

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of the Swedish Club listening to a lecture by Elmer Peterson, Minneapolis radio commentator. On the extreme right is Mr. Hugo Seashore from Sjostrand. Mr. Seashore was born in Halmstad, a province of Halland, Sweden. He is superintendent of a type of setting company in Minneapolis. In his younger days he was a light heavyweight prize fighter. On the left is Mr. Gust Roos, an interior decorator. Mr. Roos was born in Umeo, near the city of Vestros, province of Vestmanland, Sweden, and came to this country when he was twenty-seven years old

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of the Swedish Club listening to a lecture by Elmer Peterson, Minneapolis radio commentator. On the extreme right is Mr. Hugo Seashore from Sjostrand. Mr. Seashore was born in Halmstad, a province of Halland, Sweden. He is superintendent of a type of setting company in Minneapolis. In his younger days he was a light heavyweight prize fighter. On the left is Mr. Gust Roos, an interior decorator. Mr. Roos was born in Umeo, near the city of Vestros, province of Vestmanland, Sweden, and came to this country when he was twenty-seven years old

Buffalo, New York. Mabel Goodwin, forty-five, arranges for transportation and health insurance at the Bell Aircraft plant, and is told to report for work the next morning. About 200 people a day are hired at this factory. Charts on the wall show districts of the city for the arrangement of shared rides. Mrs. Goodwin worked in a war plant in the last war; has since been a housewife and has two children over fourteen

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Arthur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth, twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota, but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the morningand his earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

War production drive. The labor-management committee in the Minneapolis plant of the Northern Pump Company had trouble with absenteeism, especially Saturday nights and Sundays. To overcome this, door prizes were distributed among the men who worked on those shifts. This photograph shows the announcements of $1,250 in weekly prize money. Since this picture was taken, the plant has been placed on a full seven-day schedule and prizes are no longer necessary to keep all shifts operating

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Arthur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth, twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota, but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the morningand his earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Authur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, a province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the nmorning and hie earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

Buffalo, New York. Mabel Goodwin, forty-five, arranges for transportation and health insurance at the Bell Aircraft plant, and is told to report for work the next morning. About 200 people a day are hired at this factory. Charts on the wall show districts of the city for the arrangement of shared rides. Mrs. Goodwin worked in a war plant in the last war; has since been a housewife and has two children over fourteen

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Authur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, a province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the nmorning and hie earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

Minneapolis. The job's done and Peter Dockas, right, who by his ingenuity transformed the basement of this appliance shop at 2622 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, into a war industry, smiles. Dockas today was packaging the last of 150 radio control devices manufactured for the U.S. Army Signal Ccorps, while W.R. Stephens, left, Minnesota manager of the War Production Board (WPB) contract distributions branch, and H.C. Timberlake, former manager who helped Dockas get his contract, look on

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Citation winner. Certificate winner, George Smolarek, employed in the Aircraft Engine Department, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony

Citation winners. Donald M. Nelson, (extreme left) Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and William G. Marshall (extreme right) director of the WPB, are here shown outside the White House with certificate winner Stanley Crawford, (second from left) and citation winner Edwin Curtiss Tracy, both employees of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey

Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

Lance Cpl. Matthew Lehman shakes hands with Brig. Gen.

Nelson congratulates a blind worker. For her work in training blind persons for war industries, Miss Helen Hurst, founder of the Helen Hurst Foundation For the Blind, was congratulated by Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board (WPB) chairman. Miss Hurst, herself blind, tries out the various types of jobs to see if they can be done by blind people before she places them in industry

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The visiting nurse who examines the children every morning. There is always a doctor on call, and once a month he gives each child a thorough examination

Vice President George H.W. Bush smiles from the cockpit of an Avenger aircraft similar to the one he flew in the U.S. Navy. Bush is acting as opening-day speaker at the Air/Space America International Aerospace Trade Exposition and Air Show, the first suc

(Left to right) U.S. Navy Cmdr. Brian Goss, Kunar Provincial

Judy Davis Contract signing with Christine Todd Whitman [412-APD-A136-DSC_0135.JPG]

Masks made by the 366th Operations Support Squadron

Photograph of Exhibit Opening, American Ingenuity: Our Mass Production Story, at the National Archives

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

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