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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. American manpower draws its skills from all citizens alike. This Negro power drill operator is reaming a hole through which rivets will be driven in the building of warships in an Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. American manpower draws its skills from all citizens alike. This Negro power drill operator is reaming a hole through which rivets will be driven in the building of warships in an Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

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Production. Subchasers. Galvanizing nuts and bolts for use on subchasers under construction in a Southern shipyard. This man used to run a printing shop and tourist camp. Now, as a galvanizer and also a welder, he has helped the shipyard earn the coveted Navy "E"

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Production. Subchasers. Galvanizing nuts and bolts for use on subchasers under construction in a Southern shipyard. This man used to run a printing shop and tourist camp. Now, as a galvanizer and also a welder, he has helped the shipyard earn the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. Now well over seventy, this old ship fitter came out of retirement to help build subchasers at a Southern shipyard. At the pipe-bending job he is doing, and at other jobs, he has helped the yard win the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright gives his skill and experience to the building of subchasers in an Eastern shipyard. He has helped to turn out many oyster and fishing boats, and worked at shipbuilding in the last war. He has done much to help his present employer earn the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright gives his skill and experience to the building of subchasers in an Eastern shipyard. He has helped to turn out many oyster and fishing boats, and worked at shipbuilding in the last war. He has done much to help his present employer earn the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. An old ship fitter comes out of retirement, and fisherman leaves the sea, to help build subchasers at a Southern shipyard. At the pipe-bending job they are doing together, and at other jobs, they have helped the yard win the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. A farmer becomes a shipyard welder, and a good one, in a short time. The Southern yard at which he works on the building of subchasers taught him the trade. He later helped the yard to earn its Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. Now well over seventy, this old ship fitter came out of retirement to help build subchasers at a Southern shipyard. At the pipe-bending job he is doing, and at other jobs, he has helped the yard win the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. Now well over seventy, this old ship fitter came out of retirement to help build subchasers at a Southern shipyard. At the pipe-bending job he is doing, and at other jobs, he has helped the yard win the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. Now well over seventy, this old ship fitter came out of retirement to help build subchasers at a Southern shipyard. At the pipe-bending job he is doing, and at other jobs, he has helped the yard win the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. Galvanizing nuts and bolts for use on subchasers under construction in a Southern shipyard. This man used to run a printing shop and tourist camp. Now, as a galvanizer and also a welder, he has helped the shipyard earn the coveted Navy "E"

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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 1044.

Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.

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mississippi harrison county biloxi safety film negatives howard r hollem united states office of war information photo subchasers southern shipyard shipyard tourist camp office of war information farm security administration navy us navy united states history home front wwii world war 2 library of congress
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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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Autos and trailers encamped in a tourist camp used by migrant fruit workers, near Belle Glade, Florida

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

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

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

Production. Small ramp boats. Fitting and painting small wooden ramp boats at a Southern shipyard. These thirty-six-foot carriers, built of prefabricated sections, are used for making beach landings of men and equipment. The completed boats are launched by crane and delivered in tows of six to eight. Higgins Industries

Södra varvet - Corp de logis. Sverige. Public domain image.

Senior Airman Martin Githui, 81st Contracting Squadron

Feet of a Negro farmer. Greene County, Georgia

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Dorothy Conger, whose husband is in the Army, inspecting 105 mm. howitzers in the Chain Belt Company plant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Crew members of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine HENRY M. JACKSON (SSBN-730) man the ship's rails during the launching ceremony

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mississippi harrison county biloxi safety film negatives howard r hollem united states office of war information photo subchasers southern shipyard shipyard tourist camp office of war information farm security administration navy us navy united states history home front wwii world war 2 library of congress