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Making the sparks fly. The welding machine glows brightly as a worker in an eastern arsenal attacks a fabricated structure for the 90 mm gun anti-aircraft carriage

Giving the gun the gun. An operator in an eastern arsenal shot blasts a 90 mm anti-aircraft gun carriage platform ordered for war work

Giving the gun the gun. An operator in an eastern arsenal shot blasts a 90 mm anti-aircraft gun carriage platform ordered for war work

Production speeds up. Dozens of parts for anti-aircraft guns roll off the "line" in an eastern arsenal. Inspector checks finished top carriages for 37 mm guns

Production. Aircraft. This worker on America's battle line of production shows all the grim intent of purpose one would expect to find in the trenches on Bataan and in the gun emplacements of Corregidor. He operates a Gray milling machine in a large Western aircraft plant

Chrysler tank arsenal. The firepower is inserted into the upper turret of an M-3 tank. These workers are installing an assembled 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, which will then be protected by armor plate. Although this gun is designed for anti-aircraft use, it may also be used for straightway firing

Antiaircraft gun carriage workers. Workers assembling the elevating mechanism of one of America's many new thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriages. These guns will soon take their place in the protection of our soil against the best-armoured and the fastest-flying planes that our enemies can produce. Scene in a Pennsylvania engineering plant now converted almost entirely to America's war program production. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. This master machinist lays out the precision parts that go to make up a thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage. Swift flying planes present a difficult target, the anti-aircraft gun must be a precision instrument. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Chrysler tank arsenal. The firepower is inserted into the upper turret of an M-3 tank. These workers are installing an assembled 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, which will then be protected by armor plate. Although this gun is designed for anti-aircraft use, it may also be used for straightway firing

Making the sparks fly. The welding machine glows brightly as a worker in an eastern arsenal attacks a fabricated structure for the 90 mm gun anti-aircraft carriage

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Watertown (Mass.) ,  42.37083, -71.18278
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Library of Congress
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