Us Industry War Production

Line of 500-lbs. bombs jiggling along on overhead conveyor hooks

as a worker nonchalantly goes about his duties in room below at the A. O. Smith bomb plant

where production has increased so much they are 8% over monthly quota.

Location: Milwaukee, WI, US

Date taken: May 1944

Photographer: Andreas Feininger

Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=981f45bd104c14a8

Wwii Home Front

Rows of finished jeeps churned out in mass production for war effort

as WWII allies plan for inevitable invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.

Location: Toledo, OH, US

Date taken: June 1942

Photographer: Dmitri Kessel

Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=d52f12ce472df255

Auto Industry At War

Brand new assembly line at Detroit Tank Arsenal operated by Chrysler

which is turning out 28-ton tanks by mass-production methods.

Location: Detroit, MI, US

Date taken: February 1942

Photographer: Gordon Coster

Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e968693b562848f2
 

Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes
at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
1 transparency.
Hollem, Howard R., photographer.
LC-USW36-421 LC-DIG-fsac-1a34951(digital file from original transparency)

October 1942

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_front_during_World_War_II
Wikipedia

Primary source > Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?pp/fsac:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsac+1a34951))

Ww Ii Memorabilia

WWII patriotic "We Can Do It" poster by J. Howard Miller

featuring woman factory worker in bandana rolling up her sleeve & flexing her arm muscles.

Location: US

Date taken: 1985

Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=26ea6abb5b410f3a

Related > Rosie the Riveter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/03/rosie-the-riveter-legacy

Don't Listen To Mr. Shickelgruber!

Collection: Ad*Access
Category: World War II (1942 - 1945)
Category: Conservation: 1943-1945
Company: War Production Board
Product: Waste Fats
Sponsor: Industry
Source: Newark Evening News
Source: Newspaper
Year: 1943
Number of Pages: 1
Description: caricature of miniature Hitler
Subject: War--Conservation
Illustration--Drawing
Item Number: W0073
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess.W0073/pg.1/

Duke University > Ad*Access
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess.W0250/

USA        World War II        Home front

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http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm172.html

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