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Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Brian Foster, a Crew CHIEF with the 22nd Air Refueling Wing (ARW), McConnell Air Force Base (AFB), Kansas helps recover a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft immediately following its landing at Moron Air Base, Spain, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

150621-N-KG407-409 ACAJUTLA, El Salvador (June 21,

Marine Board of Investigation inspects debris

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Travis Day, Telephone Maintenance Technician, 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron (ECS), re-wires over 100 damaged telephone wires to re-establish communication connectivity from the main distribution frame to all the Coalition City buildings

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Operating valve which controls the flow at the Great Lakes pumping station

Statens Järnvägar, SJ huvudverkstad, Fjällbo, Göteborg. Vagnverkstaden.

Conversion. Farm implements to 37 mm. shells. After conversion to war production, a Midwest farm equipment plant made use of a centerless grinder for turning out 37 mm. shells. The machine formerly was employed in grinding bell crank bearing pins for harvest machines

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Attaching a chain sling to a lift of steel plates for the production of halftrac scout cars in a converted Eastern lock and safe plant. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

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Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big automobile plant is entirely changed over to volume production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big automobile plant is entirely changed over to volume production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Switching over to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big automobile plant is entirely converted to volume production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Switching over to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big automobile plant is entirely converted to volume production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Planning for heavy war production. A department foreman and a tool designer direct the conversion of a big automobile plant to the manufacture of army "jeeps" and trucks. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Planning for heavy war production. A department foreman and a tool designer direct the conversion of a big automobile plant to the manufacture of army "jeeps" and trucks. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Stepping up jeep production. Fericute presses in a plant converted from the making of high-priced automobiles stamp out small parts for shipment to various assembly plants where tough little army cars are made. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Stepping up jeep production. Fericute presses in a plant converted from the making of high-priced automobiles stamp out small parts for shipment to various assembly plants where tough little army cars are made. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

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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 30, frame 2444.

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michigan wayne county detroit safety film negatives lot 2122 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo ford lincoln plant war production mass production auotmoobile plant steel workers army tanks office of war information farm security administration united states history workers detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress
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01/01/1942
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label_outline Explore Lot 2122, Ford Lincoln Plant, Army Tanks

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases, to show various stages of tuberculosis. Timer for x-ray apparatus

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Newport News, Virginia. Electro-welder working on a hatch combing

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Machining the rotating band on the shell

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war production at NYA (National Youth Administration) school

Production. Marine boilers. Grinding of welded seams inside the drum of a large marine boiler at a Midwest plant which has converted its facilities to war production

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

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michigan wayne county detroit safety film negatives lot 2122 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo ford lincoln plant war production mass production auotmoobile plant steel workers army tanks office of war information farm security administration united states history workers detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress