| The air raid protective services. The speedy laying and coupling of firehose is often a difficult task, but it is essential if the auxiliary firemen are to function to the best advantage. They must learn to clamber like monkeys over debris, and must learn to estimate the strength of standing sections of bombed buildings |
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| Bantam, Connecticut. The Bantam airplane observation post is on a hill in the northern part of town, an old shack moved there from the property of Bernard C. Roeberg, real estate man and principal of Bantam School. Insulation of the walls and other work on the interior was not yet completed when this picture was taken. Watcher is Charles D. Kilbourne, a local dairy farmer and construction man. The post is manned twenty-four hours daily, and many of the watchers are workers in Bantam war industries |
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| Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. The Moravian trombone choir which plays chorales before the opening of each performance of the Bach choir |
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| Brooklyn, New York. Anniversary Day parade of the Sunday school of the Church of the Good Shepherd |
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| Brooklyn, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration. Norwegian-American parade. One pilot from Royal Norwegian Air Force followed by shipmates of the Norwegian Merchant Marine |
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| Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks |
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| Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling the weapons of democracy. In a factory which formerly manufactured safes and locks, today thirty-seven-millimeter guns and gun mounts are coming off the assembly line. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania |
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| Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap, left over from the repair and replacement of marine boilers, turbine engines and other equipment, now ready for removal from the Seabrook, Louisiana yard of the Standard Dredging Corporation. Much of the old metal from heavy dredgers and from Eagle boats of the last war will go to sea again in our new merchant ships and fighting craft. Standard Dredging Corporation |
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| De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production |
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| De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land 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 trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year |
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| Lipstick en smeerolie : vrouwen in de Amerikaanse oorlogsindustrie : kleurenfoto's 1941-1943 |
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| Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A keen eye and a steady hand guide Olie R. Cawethon in hobbing gears for ships of the United Nations. Cawethon, a former diesel engineer, answered the Navy's call for skilled workers, and is today operating a milling machine in a Southern Navy yard |
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| Marine Sgt. at New Orleans, La. |
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| Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Navy N2S primary land plane, ready for afternoon flight trips at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. These ships are completely reconditioned, after fulfilling their service schedules by civil service employees at the base |
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| New York, New York. A crowd on D-day in Madison Square |
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| New York, New York. June 6, 1944. Noon mass at Saint Vincent de Paul's Church on D-day |
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| New York, New York. Merchant marine theatre. Wing canteen. The audience |
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| New York, New York. Victory gardening at Forest Hills, Queens |
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| Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. New B-24E (Liberator) bombers just completed at Ford's big Willow Run plant, have been rolled from the hangars for test flights. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan |
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| Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats for the Navy are built of prefabricated parts and sections in a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built under roof and moved to a nearby waterway for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries |
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| Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin smelter performs delicate analytical operations that determine the amounts of pure metal remaining in slags from the furnaces. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery from the South American ore used at the plant is remarkably high |
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| Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting |
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| Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage |
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| Salvage. Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Young America, bare feet and all, made a gala event of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi parade which featured the drive for scrap rubber and metals. A long line of heavily loaded salvage trucks carried many tons of these valuable materials to the collection centers. School children alone collected 12,000 pounds of scrap |
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| Salvage. Scrap metal. Some of America's most important iron mines are located above ground, in the nation's junk yards. Every citizen can help to keep these mines from running out by selling them the scrap iron and steel which is as necessary as iron ore for making the tools of war. Location: a large New Orleans yard |
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| Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials |
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| This Norton cutter-grinder which had been specially adapted to grind cams on the motor shaft for the electric dry shaver which this New England plant normally produces, has now been converted to grind permanent magnet rotors for machine tool motors. The conversion was accomplished with new jigs and fixtures and slight changes in the head. This is a tricky job well suited to the skill of this plant's workers. The metal is alnico and the octagonal shape consists of surfaces which are arcs drawn from the center of the piece. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut |
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| Tires for pictogram |
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| Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew |
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| Transportation. Engines. "MacArthur" engine in service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Engine is shown at Halethorpe, Maryland, about eight miles from Baltimore, pulling a freight train |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival] |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Louisville, Kentucky. Virginia Lively used to be a beauty operator. Today she works at a gas station] |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Madison (vicinity), Jefferson County, Kentucky. The Ohio River] |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Proctor [i.e. Procter] and Gamble Distributing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Drums of glycerine ready for shipment] |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, cultivating his field of corn. In 1942, he took the championship for corn as a member of a 4-H club; he grew 97.07 bushels of corn to the acre] |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Washington, D.C. Exterior of the U.S. Information building] |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Williamsburg, Virginia. The capitol of the Virginia colony during the eighteenth century which was reconstructed and restored to its original state by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. during the 1930s. The governor's palace] |
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| Winner of the plant award. New M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll down the production lines of the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York. These fast, easily maneuvered cannon carriers are typical of the new mechanized equipment being provided to American troops |
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