1. 1942 | B-25 bomber assembly hall, North American Aviation, Kansas City | Alfred Palmer

2. 1942 | Engine inspector for North American Aviation at Long Beach, California | Alfred Palmer

3. 1942 | Riveter at Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, California | Alfred Palmer

4. 1942 | Furnace man at phosphate smelter, TVA chemical plant near Muscle Shoals, Alabama | Alfred Palmer

5. 1942 | B-25 bomber final assembly line at North American Aviation works, Inglewood, California | Alfred Palmer

6. 1942 | A painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 Mustang fighter prior to spraying with olive-drab camouflage. North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California | Alfred Palmer

7. 1942 | Final assembly for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Inglewood, California | Alfred Palmer

8. 1942 | Truck driver at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam | Alfred Palmer

9. 1942 | Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at work on the TVA's Douglas Dam in Tennessee | Alfred Palmer

10. 1943 | Touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Consolidated-Vultee's Nashville division | Alfred Palmer

11. 1940 | Servicing an A-20 bomber at Langley Field, Virginia | Alfred Palmer

12. 1942 | Assembling switchboxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California | Alfred Palmer

13. 1942 | Workers installing fixtures and assemblies in the tail section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California | Alfred Palmer

14. 1942 | American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front | Alfred Palmer

15. 1942 | An M-4 tank crew training at Fort Knox, Kentucky | Alfred Palmer

16. 1942 | Students at Washington High School in Los Angeles training for specific contributions to the war effort | Alfred Palmer

17. 1942 | Metal parts are placed on masonite by this employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress at North American Aviation in Inglewood, California | Alfred Palmer

18. 1943 | Working on the horizontal stabilizer of a "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Consolidated-Vultee plant in Nashville | Alfred Palmer

19. 1942 | Fort Knox, Kentucky. A good job in the air cleaner of an Army truck. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping Army transport fleets in operation | Alfred Palmer

20. 1942 | Long Beach, California. Girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers | Alfred Palmer

21. 1941 | Goodyear Aircraft, Akron, Ohio. Formerly an aircraft dock, this huge building, thought to be the largest in the world with no interior supports | Alfred Palmer

22. 1942 | Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron | Alfred Palmer

23. 1942 | Douglas Aircraft Co. at Long Beach, California. Carefully trained women inspectors check cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage | Alfred Palmer

24. 1942 | Fort Knox, Kentucky. Infantryman with halftrack. A young soldier sights his Garand rifle like an old-timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism | Alfred Palmer

25. 1942 | Crane operator at Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam | Alfred Palmer

26. 1942 | Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation being hauled along an outdoor assembly line | Alfred Palmer

27. 1942 | Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City | Alfred Palmer

28. 1942 | P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes being prepared for test flight near the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California | Alfred Palmer

29. 1942 | Parris Island, South Carolina. Marine lieutenant glider pilot in training at Page Field | Alfred Palmer

30. 1942 | A new B-25 bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Kansas City, Kansas, plant of North American Aviation | Alfred Palmer

31. 1942 | With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job in Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval Air Base she was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under civil service | Howard Hollem

32. 1942 | Mating operation on a C-87 transport plane just before it comes to the pre- assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas | Howard Hollem

33. 1942 | Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas | Howard Hollem

34. 1942 | Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft plant in Fort Worth, Texas | Howard Hollem

35. 1943 | Lucille Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. Working at the Heil and Co. factory in Milwaukee on blackout lamps to be used on Air Force gasoline trailers | Howard Hollem

36. 1942 | Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas | Howard Hollem

37. 1942 | Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Jesse Rhodes Waller, aviation ordnance mate third class, tries out a 30-caliber machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane | Howard Hollem