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Workers pass through the gate at the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. in Mobile.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (Addsco 3-416)
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Emma Belle Petcher was born March 27, 1923 in Millry, Alabama and when she graduated from high school in 1942, decided to go to Mobile in search of work. She received a high score on a mechanical aptitude test, and was put into a nine month training program for maintaining . . .
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During the war, Emma Belle Petcher moved to Mobile and worked as one of two women in charge of quality control as an inspector at Brookley Field.
Source: Emma Belle Petcher
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Emma Belle Petcher in 1942. During the war, Petcher moved to Mobile and worked as one of two women in charge of quality control as an inspector at Brookley Field.
Source: Emma Belle Petcher
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A gas purchase on a lonely road nearly leads to a fatal shooting.
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After graduating from high school, she headed for Mobile.
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By 1943, six million women had entered the work force, and nearly half of them were working in defense plants.
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A woman listens to the radio in her boardinghouse room. January 1943. For those back home, the radio proved the best source for news on the war.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3- 038331-E)
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Two enormous vessels docked at a Mobile pier. Men move cargo in the foreground.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (Addsco 49-A)
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Two servicemen cross a street in downtown Mobile.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (MN-159B)
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A pre-war view of a busy street in downtown Mobile.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (N3075)
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Rear view of the interior of an empty Mobile city bus. "WHITE" sign hangs from the ceiling.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (CO-10020)
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Bustling Mobile ship channel.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (C-9089)
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Black shipyard worker at the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. in Mobile guides a giant propellor. Clyde Odom worked as a foreman at the segregated docks.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (G-25)
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Signing up for sugar and food rationing in Taos, New Mexico. February 1943.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-019115-C)
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Mass production was an American invention, but during the war it reached levels its inventors could never have imagined.
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Cities across the country exploded with work needed to keep the Allies fighting overseas.
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