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Production. Aircraft. Setting up aluminum castings for X-ray in a large Western aircraft plant. Each one is numbered and, unless the X-ray film shows it's flawless, the part will go to the salvage scrap heap

Circus Mikkenie in Turnhout Belgie. Het Belgische wonderkind

Escuela- época Mercante, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dammen Nederland tegen Rusland. Nummers 4.5 Wiersma

Maroof - A painting of a group of people in a room

Lockwood-Mathews House, Veterans' Memorial Park, Southeast, Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT

Suikerdamtoernooi Amsterdam (eindronde); Frank Drost

Captain Lee Duckworth, USN (Ret.) staffs a walk up

Mevr. O.J. Samkalden, echtgenote van de Amsterdamse

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Production. Aircraft. Setting up aluminum castings for X-ray in a large Western aircraft plant. Each one is numbered and, unless the X-ray film shows it's flawless, the part will go to the salvage scrap heap

Production. Aircraft. An aluminum casting, placed on an X-ray film-holder, ready to be photographed in the test laboratory of a big Western aircraft plant. The numeral figures being placed on the film are made of lead and will stop the X-ray beam. A clean, sharp number is left on the film for future identification of the part

Production. Aircraft. An aluminum casting, placed on an X-ray film-holder, ready to be photographed in the test laboratory of a big Western aircraft plant. The numeral figures being placed on the film are made of lead and will stop the X-ray beam. A clean, sharp number is left on the film for future identification of the part

Production. Aircraft. Here's one good reason why refrigerator freezing trays and other aluminum gadgets are out for the duration. On trays in the background are hundreds of aluminum castings going into Lockheed bombers and fighters. Every prime casting is "explored" in a huge X-ray camera like the one seen here. On X-ray film, flaws that might cause failure of these vital parts show up plainly to the expert eye, and the part is discarded

Production. Aircraft. Here's one good reason why refrigerator freezing trays and other aluminum gadgets are out for the duration. On trays in the background are hundreds of aluminum castings going into Lockheed bombers and fighters. Every prime casting is "explored" in a huge X-ray camera like the one seen here. On X-ray film, flaws that might cause failure of these vital parts show up plainly to the expert eye, and the part is discarded

Production. Aircraft. Samples for microscope inspection--a lowly rivet, a screw, an extruded part--prepared by a test engineer in a large Western aircraft plant. Samples are embedded in bakelite, polished to mirror finish, then etched with acid to bring out the grain. A faulty grain structure, as revealed through the microscope, will show up low-grade material or faulty processing methods in the manufacture of the part

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Scrap lengths of aluminum tubing at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company are returned to the smelters for reclamation and reforming into useful shapes. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Aircraft. Samples for microscope inspection--a lowly rivet, a screw, an extruded part--prepared by a test engineer in a large Western aircraft plant. Samples are embedded in bakelite, polished to mirror finish, then etched with acid to bring out the grain. A faulty grain structure, as revealed through the microscope, will show up low-grade material or faulty processing methods in the manufacture of the part

Production. Aircraft. At the end of a Flying Fortress assembly line, this mechanic in a large Western plant makes a final check on a landing gear hydraulic system. That big round object in the foreground is a rubber tire. Remember?

Production. Aircraft. Setting up aluminum castings for X-ray in a large Western aircraft plant. Each one is numbered and, unless the X-ray film shows it's flawless, the part will go to the salvage scrap heap

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 989.

Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.

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california los angeles county burbank safety film negatives lot 1985 david bransby united states office of war information photo western aircraft plant x ray film salvage scrap heap aircraft aluminum castings x ray office of war information farm security administration united states history home front wwii world war 2 library of congress vendors farmers agriculture
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01/01/1942
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Armies in World War 2

Photograhs of the largest military conflict in history
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burbank
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Library of Congress
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label_outline Explore Aluminum Castings, X Ray Film, Lot 1985

Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Fair employment practices in defense industries. A poster distributed by the OEM (Office of Emergency Management) Labor Division and the President's Committe on Fair Employment Practice to war plants and employment offices throughout the United States

Conversion. Paper machinery to naval sights. Sight rings and details for open naval sights are inspected in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out tank gun mount housings and plane wing equipment

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Army trucks and other vehicles at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are checked thoroughly, and at regular intervals. Wherever possible, motorized military equipment is maintained in constant tip top shape, instantly ready for strenuous action

Reciprocal aid. Two sergeants from Texas, Sergeant A. Baker and Technical Sergeant Roy Hill, carry a string of British bullets over their shoulders to a British Spitfire. American and British air forces work side by side in the European theatre, with British furnishing important supplies and equipment under the Reciprocal Aid Program

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Oil tank installation. Vultee workers are shown installing an oil tank behind the engine firewall on the sub-assembly engine mounting. This Wright "double cyclone" engine powers the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. "Captain" Mary explaining the merits of gyroscope in navigation

Staff Sgt. Andrew Vitale, 436th Civil Engineer Squadron

Burbank exercises on the CEVIS. NASA public domain image colelction.

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

Navy corpsmen perform immediate trauma training here

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california los angeles county burbank safety film negatives lot 1985 david bransby united states office of war information photo western aircraft plant x ray film salvage scrap heap aircraft aluminum castings x ray office of war information farm security administration united states history home front wwii world war 2 library of congress vendors farmers agriculture