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The photo shows the staggering engineering which went into making ships. Each rivet needed a hole drilled to accomodate it. Then red hot rivets were shoved in and flattened over. That's aside from the actual cutting and shaping of each plate - every single one was different. All that but before they could do it they had to melt steel to make sheet. To make steel they had to mine ores and fuels.. The process of ship building is an incredible story from start to finish.

I love these old photos - such wonderfull colors.

Yes a really talented photographer on a mission. The government really had to sell women in the workplace hard during the war. Photos that showed that women could work hard at mens jobs and still be ladies were important in entice more women to enter the workforce and getting men to accept the necessity.

I LOVE these pictures!! I have never seen the past like this before.. THANK you so much for this album!

She's showing a fair bit of leg for those days! raunchy!

I probably wouldn't be making this comment if I weren't saving a bunch of photos to print for a very young female person -- but if that's a modern vs historic title, it needs to be changed. This worker is not a girl. She's a woman. (And yes, I love these photos. This collection is a treasure.)

Named after "Big" Bertha Krupp. The gun Big Bertha was moved along rails to this rotating emplacement. ref.http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/bigbertha.htm

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Try these interesting links.. LEFT CLICK .. HOLD IT AND DRAG YOUR MOUSE GENTLY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ON THE ORIGINAL PHOTOS AND IT WILL BECOME THE SAME LOCATION VIEW TODAY .... DRAG IT BACK OVER AND YOU ARE IN 1944 AGAIN. interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slide...