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War Production
Nearly all manufacturing was converted to the war effort. American workers would soon be able to build ships and planes faster than the enemy could sink them or shoot them down. By the end of the war, more than one-half of the all the industrial production in the world would take place in the United States.
Nearly all manufacturing was converted to the war effort. American workers would soon be able to build ships and planes faster than the enemy could sink them or shoot them down. By the end of the war, more than one-half of the all the industrial production in the world would take place in the United States.
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In Newport News, Virginia, shipyard workers drink beer at a local bar, 1941.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF 34-62709-D)
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Shipyard workers mill about in front of the entrance to the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. in Mobile. Clyde Odom worked here as a foreman.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (Addsco 3-416)
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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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Airplane propellers ready for shipment from a Hartford, CT plant. Workers are reminded that "Every Minute Counts." June 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USE6-D-008096)
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At the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland, welders help assemble the SS Frederick Douglas, a Liberty ship. May 1943.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-24141-C)
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Women workers on the B-17 production line at Douglas Aviation Co., Long Beach, California. October 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USE6-D-007812)
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Barbara Covington at a picnic at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento. Covington worked there as a typist.
Source: Barbara Perkins
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Rock County Star Herald, September 10, 1942. Headline reads: "Palace-Pix In Theatre Bond Drive"? "Free Ticket to Movie On Sept. 24 Given With Bond Purchases"?
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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Portrait of Mobile's Clyde Odom at 18 years. He would serve as a foreman at Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding during the war.
Source: Clyde Odom
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Clyde Odom grew up in Mobile and went to work as a mechanic at the Alabama Dry Dock Ship and Building Company in October, 1940. He became a foreman during the war and worked twelve hours a day five days a week, ten hours on Saturday, eight hours on Sunday. . .
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Getting time off on Sunday made one feel like they had a vacation.
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For maybe the first time in U.S. history, every citizen seemed involved in the war effort.
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Emotional production poster to keep the effort high at home
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-633)
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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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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 female welder at Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. in Mobile, AL.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (C-24, 075 ADDSCO)
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Workers at the Douglas Aviation Plant in Long Beach, California put the finishing touches on a B-17 Flying Fortress. October 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USE6-D-007826)
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Urging workers not to slow down.
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-179-WP-1256)
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War scene encouraging workers to keep production up. Created by Heaslip.
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-886)
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Poster applauding the working woman, done by Packer for the Office of War Information.
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-911)
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