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Women in defense. This Middlewestern plant has converted not only its machinery but also its skilled labor force from the peacetime production of electric fans and motors to the war production of twenty-millimeter shell boosters. Here a veteran employee of the plant's experimental division teaches a former farmerette the operation of a Haskins drilling machine, which drill holes in a twenty-millimeter shell booster part

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Sgt. Major Fox of New Hebrides Defense Force

Full-length side-view of a soldier wearing a uniform with short pants. The islands of the Republic of Vanuatu were formerly known as New Hebrides. Efate (seat of the capital), is one of the more important islan More

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine transport workers in the fleet force are the most expert of tire changers. This man, in training at the New River, North Carolina base, takes them all ways: big ones, little ones, any way they come. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

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Mr. Albert W. Williams, president of the Unity Life Insurance Company, dictating to secretary DeAcklin. Mr. Williams was born in Georgia, studied at the University of Pennsylvania, worked for eight years for an insurance company in Washington, D.C. then went to New Orleans, and for the last fifteen years has lived in Chicago. The company has about five million dollars worth of business in force. Chicago, Illinois

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Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A captain, a lieutenant-colonel and a staff sergeant of the armored forces discuss tactical problems during war games at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where soldiers in training are learning the most up-to-date methods of fighting a mechanized war

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Fort Knox, Kentucky. Armored force personnel. Litter bearers go through their routine as the armored force outfit to which they belong engage in war exercises at Fort Knox, Kentucky

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A welcome army of invasion is the great force of United States soldiers now cutting the wonderful Alcan Highway through Canada's wilderness to Alaska. A former lithographer, Sherman Gardner of Midvale, Utah, is working as surveyor

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Tamping in sack of sand to increase the explosion force of a blast

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Troops of the Army Task Force, enroute from New Caledonia to the Solomon Islands, checking their rifles and preparing for inspection. They are wearing the new-type U.S. Army helmet

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Movable might. The erection of an 8-inch gun railway carriage nears completion in an eastern arsenal. Fitted with its big cannon, the carriage will be a potent force for war work

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Many minds, many heads, many skills went into the construction of this large, hydraulically-operated milling machine. The slender shaft just below the figure "100" in the upper right is a tracer finger, so called because it feels its way gently around the edge of a pattern so that the cutters reproduce the pattern exactly in tough steel. This tracer, so sensitive that it can be deflected with the edge of a piece of cardboard, controls the movement of tons of machinery exerting fifteen or twenty horsepower of cutting force

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Mr. Albert W. Williams, president of the Unity Life Insurance Company, dictating to secretary DeAcklin. Mr. Williams was born in Georgia, studied at the University of Pennsylvania, worked for eight years for an insurance company in Washington, D.C. then went to New Orleans, and for the last fifteen years has lived in Chicago. The company has about five million dollars worth of business in force. Chicago, Illinois

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Fort Knox, Kentucky. Armored force personnel. "Tankers," as crewmen of the tank corps are called. These capable soldiers are just finishing advanced courses in armored force operations at Fort Knox, Kentucky

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This picture shows brass rod coming from the extrusion machine. Red hot brass billets (solid cylindrical castings) are pushed by tremendous force through a steel die in the extrusion press to form rods of various shapes, or hollow shells that are subsequently made into tubing. The metal is ejected from the extrusion press like tooth paste from a tube. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

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Washington D.C. Congested parking downtown after both tire and gas rationing had been put into force

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Hydraulic pressure is applied to bags of crushed olives to force out the oil. The first pressing extracts about seventy-five percent of the entire oil content. This is fine virgin olive oil. Lindsay, California

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Members of the United States tank force in New Guinea constructed the ingenious washing machine from two old drums and a motor-driven wire-laying winch. Private First Class Wally Rathgeb of Wenatchee, Washington, is doing his weekly wash

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Landing operation of U.S. Airborne Infantry force somewhere in the southwestern United States. Troops unloading supplies and ammunition from transport planes

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. A mechanical feeder is here shown running billets of brass into an electric furnace, where they will be heated at a high temperature. Then the heated billets will be pushed with tremendous force through the die of an extrusion machine to form rods, tubes, angles or other shapes. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. The farm has its own police force

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American who is part of the voluntary police force. The Japanese-American evacuees have their own police force

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. The brute force of a mighty plane engine, over a thousand horsepower, will strain at the bolt holes drilled by this girl worker in an engine bulkhead for a wing spar of a B-17F heavy bomber. She works in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

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Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Turning one of the heavy tracks of an M-3 tank at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Army keeps a large force of trained mechanics busy at the job of servicing and repairing all its motorized equipment

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Fort Knox, Kentucky. Armored force personnel. The armored forces get a good type of soldier. This capable looking lieutenant, in training with his men at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is just finishing a course that will make him quite a problem for the Axis

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Typical members of the Free French naval force and the voluntiers tirailleurs (infantrymen)

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A bill of rights as provided in the ten original amendments to the constitution of the United States in force December 15, 1791. [n. p. 1942?].

Printed on parchment paper.; Gift. Senator Robert L. Owen Oct. 14, 1942.; On verso: Bill of Rights; Gift Robert L. Owen Oct. 14, 1942. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as f More

New River, North Carolina. Marines in training. Leatherneck, 1942 style. A fighting man of the Fleet Marine Force, dressed in one of the new field uniforms. He has just put in at the New River, North Carolina Marine base to sharpen up on some of the new tricks our boys will spring on the Axis. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

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Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A first sergeant of the armored forces pulls his motorcycle to a standstill to study the effect of a tactical move during war games at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where young soldiers are learning the latest tricks of mechanized warfare

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Childersburg, Alabama. Police force

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Lend-lease hearings. The House Foreign Affairs Committee considers phases of the lend-lease act before an interested audience. The committee later recommended to the House that the act be continued in force as a valuable factor in the fighting of the war

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Somewhere in Iran. Major General Lewis Brererton in the center, the Commander of the United States Army force in the Middle East, with a group of Russian officers standing before an American warplane delivered to the Russians. A United States warplane is being tested in the background and bears the red star insignia of Russia, which is made by filling in the white star of the United States with red paint

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With the aid of a little canvas, and an obsolete French bomber, an American task force has set up a very practical mess kitchen in North Africa. Left to right are Lieutenant E. T. McBoon of Canton, Illinois, and Ssergeant C. W. Moore of Houston, Texas, inspecting the kitchen. Corporal William G. Warrington, a cook from Jefferson, Texas, is preparing the meal

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President of Liberia honors nation's founder. His Excellency, Edwin M. Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, paid tribute to this nation's founder Saturday, May 29, 1943 whe he journeyed to Mount Vernon, Virginia, to place a wreath on the tomb of George Washington, first President of the United States. Shown above with President Barclay during the ceremony is Captain Alford Russ, Chief of the Liberian Frontier Force

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Washington, D.C. A member of the office force at Woodrow Wilson High School

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Photos of the late Private John Thomas Mackall after whom Camp Mackall, North Carolina has been named. Private Mackall, a member of a parachute unit which was part of the invading force that landed in North Africa early in November, was one of the first airborne soldiers to give his life there. He was born March 17, 1920 at Negley, Ohio. He was inducted into military service January 7, 1942 and received his basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas. He left for overseas duty with the first unit of the airborne command. He died November 12, 1942. The plane in which he was flying was attacked by three enemy pursuit ships; it made an emergency landing and Private Mackall was wounded in the strafing that occurred afterwards. He was buried with full military honors at the base of the Rock of Gibralter

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Severe Storm ^ Tornado - Queens, N. Y. , November 3, 2010 -- FEMA Public Assistance Coordinator Doug Westermann explains the recovery process to members of the NYC Parks and Recreation Department. FEMA is aiding in the recovery from the damage caused by the tornadoes and hurricane force winds that blew through the New York area on September 16, 2010. Jaime DeMarco/FEMA

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Severe Storm ^ Tornado - Brooklyn, N. Y. , October 27, 2010 -- FEMA officials make sure everything is in order with New York State officials after the Applicant Briefing held at the New York City OEM. FEMA is aiding in the recovery from the damage caused by the tornadoes and hurricane force winds that blew through the New York area on September 16, 2010. Jaime DeMarco/FEMA

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Production. Magnesium. Two men of the plant protection force guard the stacks of vital magnesium produced at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. This lightest of all metals is used in the making of incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts

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Lend-lease hearings. War Shipping Administrator Emory S. Land urges the House Foreign Affairs Committee to support the lend-lease act. The committee reported to the House urging that the act be continued in force

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Port Lyautey (vicinity), Morocco. This is the cemetery adjoining the colorful Kasbah Mehdia, the 400 year-old Portuguese fort where President Roosevelt laid a wreath at the foot of a flagpole from which Old Glory waves. Buried underneath the neat rows of white crosses are the officers and men of the United States task force who lost their lives in the North African campaign

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Severe Storm ^ Tornado - Queens, N. Y. , November 3, 2010 -- FEMA project specialist Paul Ogiba explains disaster relief policies with New York officials after the NYC Parks and Recreation kickoff meeting. FEMA is aiding in the recovery from the damage caused by the tornadoes and hurricane force winds that cut a path through the New York area on September 16, 2010. Jaime DeMarco/FEMA

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Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. A "head" of water released from a dam upstream has washed down the logs that lay in its path. The force of the spring drive has already uprooted two large trees at the head of this little falls

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Liberian presidential party visits Fort Belvoir. Two twenty-one gun salutes, a regimental review and a luncheon with the commanding officers were tendered His Excellency, Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, when he visited Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on May 29, 1943. President Barclay is shown with members of his party and fort officers as the regimental band played the Liberian national anthem "All Hail, Liberia Hail." Brigadier General Edwin H. Marks, commanding officer of the fort, and Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, U.S.A. military aide to President Barclay are shown in the front row with His Excellency. Captain Alford Russ of the Liberian Fontier Force and Captain Swann of Fort Belvoir's public relation office are shown in the rear

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Liberian president visits Howard University. His Excellency, Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, visited Howard University in Washington, D.C. on Friday, May 29, 1943. Shown left to right are Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, U.S. military aide ot President Barclay; President-Elect W.V.S. Tubman; Captain Alford Russ of the Liberian Frontier Force; Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, President of Howard University and President Barclay

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Washington, D.C. The custodial force cleaning the Woodrow Wilson High School sidewalk of the red paint applied by students of a rival school before a football game

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Attu, Aleutian Islands. Landing boats pouring soldiers and their equipment onto the beach at Massacre Bay. This is the Southern landing force

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Luncheon for Liberian president's party. His Excellency, Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, was feted by Negro civic, social, professional and educational leaders Saturday, May 29, 1943 at a luncheon at the Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall in Washington, D.C. Shown at the president's table (seated, left to right) are: Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, U.S. Army military aide to President Barclay; W.V.S. Tubman, President-elect of Liberia; President Barclay; Dr. Emmet J. Scott, Chairman of the Committee on Invitation; and Captain Alford Russ, chief of the Liberian frontier force. Standing (left to right) are Stanley Woodward, Frederick Hibbard and Henry S. Villard, State Department; and Walter F. Walker, Liberian Consul General at New York

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Somewhere in Iran. Major General Lewis Brererton in the center, the Commander of the United States Army force in the Middle East, with a group of Russian officers standing before an American warplane delivered to the Russians. A United States warplane is being tested in the background and bears the red star insignia of Russia, which is made by filling in the white star of the United States with red paint

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