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Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are working on building forms used in the manufacture of self-sealing fuel tanks, an important new safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Machinist Bert Reales uses grinder. Paterson New Jersey

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Tire building. This tire builder starts the carcass by slipping a layer of fabric onto the tire drum. The layer is made with the seam cut on the bias so that there will be no straight-across strain on the tire seams. The layer fits tightly, and each successive layer is banded to the preceding one by applied pressure. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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Production. Minesweepers. Grandad's doing a grand job. Two grandfathers, both seventy, D.L. Zimbrough and F.M. Webb, work on nearby lathes in an Eastern shipyard now turning out minesweepers for the Navy. The yard has kept up an excellent production by bringing many older workers out of retirement. Gibbs Cass Company

Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1913-1923.) (20473577466)

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Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are working on building forms used in the manufacture of self-sealing fuel tanks, an important new safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are working on building forms used in the manufacture of self-sealing fuel tanks, an important new safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are working on building forms used in the manufacture of self-sealing fuel tanks, an important new safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

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Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are doing the final finishing work on bullet-sealing fuel tanks, a new development vitally important to the safety of military aviators. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are doing the final finishing work on bullet-sealing fuel tanks, a new development vitally important to the safety of military aviators. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are applying reinforcing members around fittings on self-sealing fuel tanks under construction for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are applying reinforcing members around fittings on self-sealing fuel tanks under construction for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are fitting inner ply to a building form, a safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are working on building forms used in the manufacture of self-sealing fuel tanks, an important new safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

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01/01/1942
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Akron (Ohio) ,  41.08139, -81.51889
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Goodyear Airdock, 1210 Massillon Road, Akron, Summit County, OH

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are stitching inner ply to a building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing tanks. Goodrich

Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so are the tube molds. This one has just opened; all the operator need do is remove the finished tube and put in another raw one. Note the seam marks in the mold itself, which leave their imprint on the tube. Thus a seamless tube may appear to have a collection of many sections. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Fort Knox. Halftrac crews. The crews of halftrac armored cars, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are hardy, able men. The Fort Knox school for men of the armored services is teaching many American soldiers how to use mechanized striking equipment to best advantage. Its graduates are now on many of our far-flung battle lines, ready to meet the Axis on more than even terms

Quaker Oats Cereal Factory, Southeast corner of Broadway & Mill Streets, Akron, Summit County, OH

Barrage balloon manufacture. Reinforcing tail rigging of a new ballonet type barrage balloon, these workers at the barrage plant are cementing, seaming and rolling reinforcing tape across points in the tail and fins where strain is greatest. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are stitching inner ply to a building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing tanks. Goodrich

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at Eustis, Florida, used to be an automobile mechanic. He came from Akron, Ohio in 1920. He is drilling a much needed gear for the De Land community pool's million-dollar war contract. Eight machines work at full speed in his three-car-garage; all of them operated by his wife, sister, both grandmothers, his son, and one helper

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These tanks contain vegetable fats and butadiene, a highly volatile gas "cracked" from crude petroleum. These raw materials for synthetic rubber are piped from freight cars into these storage tanks. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This worker at the Akron, Ohio synthetic rubber plant of the B. F. Goodrich Company is placing trimmed sheets of synthetic rubber on the cooling racks

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