Library ID | Date | Title | Photo |
65729(1) | 06/28/1944 | Mediterranean Beach Scene -- Members of the Women's Army Corps stationed in North Africa. Recreational periods mean time off from the war. | 23-0373a.gif |
65729(2) | | "Dolly" a proud "British Lioness" is fighting with allied front-line forces. She is mascot of a South African Pioneer Corps which is building landing fields in advanced sectors of the Western Desert battle area. | 23-0262a.gif |
65757(10) | 04/00/1943 | Leaving her youngster at a well-run nursery school in Oakland, California, this war-working mother can devote all her thoughts to the job, knowing that the child will be kept busy and happy during the day. | 23-0292a.gif |
65757(2) | | This young lady's mother works in a war plant. The youngster passes twelve hours a day from Monday through Saturday in one of the 35 War Nurseries conducted for war workers children. | 23-0291a.gif |
65758(36) | 05/23/1943 | 2nd Lieutenant Frances Bullock applies a dressing to a wounded soldier's hand in an Army hospital. | 23-0092a.gif |
65758(38) | 05/23/1943 | Nurse Frances Bullock wheels a wounded soldier back to his bed in the orthopedics ward of an Army hospital. | 23-0093a.gif |
66111(70) | 11/00/1942 | An armorer's assistant in a large western aircraft plant works on the installation of one of the machine guns in the nose position of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane | 23-0050a.gif |
66113(27) | 11/00/1942 | New Lockheed P-38 pursuit ships receive final inspections and adjustments on assembly lines outside a large western aircraft plant. | 23-0049a.gif |
66113(37) | | A midget and a woman worker install control wires on a "Valiant" basic trainer at the Downey Plant. | 23-0030a.gif |
66114(22) | 10/00/1942 | Grace Janota, former department store clerk, is now a lathe operator at a Western aircraft plant producing B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. | 23-0105a.gif |
66114(32) | 10/00/1942 | Grace Janota, former department store clerk, was trained as a lathe operator by Rudolph Dolkas, who deserted the Austrian army as a sergeant in 1913 and came to this country. | 23-0106a.gif |
66115(30) | 02/00/1942 | An airplane engine under special test in a secluded and carefully guarded woodland area near a Midwest engine plant. | 23-0019a.gif |
66115(46) | 00/00/1941 | New York City Boys organize tin club. These patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane - and all in one day. | 23-0411a.gif |
66115(46) | 00/00/1941 | New York City Boys organize tin club. These patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane - and all in one day. | 23-0411a.gif |
66115(55) | 12/00/1942 | Mary Miller, operator of a router at the Boeing plant in Seattle, drills holes in a part for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. | 23-0104a.gif |
66115(8) | 12/00/1942 | An Army sentry guards new B-17 F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the airfield of Boeing's Seattle plant. The ship will be delivered to the Army and the Navy after they have successfully undergone flught tests. | 23-0037a.gif |
66116(23) | 08/00/1942 | A canteen on the grounds of a large western aircraft plant serves workers hot food, drinks and refreshments during the lunch periods of all shifts. | 23-0054a.gif |
66116(44) | 08/00/1942 | These two men worked 15 hours each day, 7 days a week, and prduced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in 18 months. Photo by OWI. | 23-0383a.gif |
66116(44) | 08/00/1942 | These two men worked 15 hours each day, 7 days a week, and prduced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in 18 months. Photo by OWI. | 23-0383a.gif |
66119(47) | 00/00/1943 | The labor-management committee of the Northern Pump Co. keeps a scoreboard to keep employees informed of the progress of the War Production Drive. | 23-0381a.gif |
66119(47) | 00/00/1943 | The labor-management committee of the Northern Pump Co. keeps a scoreboard to keep employees informed of the progress of the War Production Drive. | 23-0381a.gif |
66119(66) | | A midget hard at work in the | 23-0029a.gif |
66120(12) | 05/00/1942 | George ("Randy") McCraw, decorating a Vega Ventura bomber. Every ship that rolls off the line carries a cartoon aimed at the Axis. | 23-0053a.gif |
66121(13) | 10/00/1942 | A completed B-17 F heavy bomber is checked by final inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company before it moves to the flight line for rigid acceptance tests. | 23-0038a.gif |
66127(11) | 10/00/1942 | Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American's Inglewood, Calif. plant. | 23-0114a.gif |
66127(14) | 10/00/1942 | A landing gear, ready for assembly on a B-25 bomber, is rolled into place on the final assembly line of North American's Inglewwod, Calif. plant. | 23-0111a.gif |
66127(27) | 10/00/1942 | Under the close supervision of a foreman, a new engine assembly is installed in a B-25 bomber at North American's Inglewood. Calif., plant. | 23-0042a.gif |
66127(4) | 10/00/1942 | A women welder at the Inglewood, Calif. plant of North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for one of the huge tanks that go into B-25 bombers. | 23-0112a.gif |
66128(103) | 05/00/1942 | Workers at a new bomber production plant. | 23-0022a.gif |
66129(12) | 02/00/1943 | Riveting a center wing section for a B-24E (Liberator) bomber in the horizontal position at Ford's big Willow Run plant. | 23-0041a.gif |
66129(17) | 02/00/1943 | Installing one of the four engines of a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber on one of the assembly lines of ford's big Willow Run plant. | 23-0040a.gif |
66129(31) | 02/00/1943 | Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. | 23-0039a.gif |
66130(6) | 10/00/1942 | A shipping department employee at the Inglewod, Calif., plant of North American Aviation drills holes in a shipping crate for a "Mustang" fighter for the Royal Air Force. | 23-0052a.gif |
66131(17) | 04/00/1942 | Mrs. Alene Green, of Deland, Fla., with two sons in the Army and one in the Navy, still felt she wasn't doing enough. So she enrolled in the Deland vocational school to learn how to put fabric on airplane wings. | 23-0088a.gif |
66131(34) | 03/00/1942 | Two grandmothers are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida. Photo by Hollem | 23-0377a.gif |
66131(34) | 03/00/1942 | Two grandmothers are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida. Photo by Hollem | 23-0377a.gif |
66131(37) | 03/00/1942 | The La Roe family of Austis, Fla., after a day's work for The Deland pool. Left is Mrs. La Roe, with her twe-year-old granddaughter, next is four-year-old Eugene, Clarence La Roe's son, and Mr. La Roe. | 23-0006a.gif |
66131(41) | 04/00/1942 | The Deland industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top and its trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year. ( | 23-0007a.gif |
66131(51) | 04/00/1942 | Jonny J. Jones show moving three of its circus animals from its winter quarters at the Volusia County fairgrounds in order to make room for the subcontractors in the Dealnd pool, who turned the fairgrounds buildings into a large war production plant. | 23-0008a.gif |
66143(46) | 10/00/1942 | Myriads of lights at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company form pleasing star patterns in the shatterproof plexiglass windows of noses for A-20 attack bombers. | 23-0034a.gif |
66143(47) | 10/00/1942 | Experienced assembly line workers of both sexes contribute to the production of A-20 attack bombers in the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, Calif. | 23-0036a.gif |
66143(49) | 10/00/1942 | A Douglas A-20 attack bomber leaves the assembly line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant for transfer to the flight line and a test flight before delivery to the Army. | 23-0033a.gif |
66143(59) | 10/00/1942 | Long lines of a A-20 attack bombers roll ceaslessly, night and day, through the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, Calif. | 23-0035a.gif |
66158(10) | 02/00/1943 | Never too young to learn, these future homemakers receive first-hand experience in looking for point values as well as prices and information on labels when buying canned and bottled foods with War Ration Book Two. | 23-0284a.gif |
66158(6) | 02/00/1943 | Facts the younger generation of marketers should know are taught this class in the Murch Elementary School, Washington, D.C. Catherine M. Rooney, 6th grade teacher instructs her alert pupils on the way and how of War Ration Book Two. | 23-0283a.gif |
66159(3) | | A customer can use the ration books of the whole family. But the first thing she will want to know when she buys pork chops, pond of butter or a half pound of cheese is--"How many points will it take?" | 23-0285a.gif |
66159(4) | | When the customer wants to have a cut of meat specially prepared, points must be given for the full cut as it is listed on the Point Table before it is boned, trimmed or ground. | 23-0282a.gif |
66161(10) | 12/00/1941 | Scrap Rubber Drive. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Photo by Palmer. | 23-0407a.gif |
66161(10) | 12/00/1941 | Scrap Rubber Drive. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Photo by Palmer. | 23-0407a.gif |
66161(13) | 12/00/1941 | Scrap Rubber Drive. Millions of discarded casing cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Photo by Palmer. | 23-0409a.gif |