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21 photos and 1 illustration tagged strength, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.

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• wwii
• slidefilm
• transparency
• 4x5
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• industry
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• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration
• North East Museums 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, Inglewood, Calif. The heavy hemp rope is used to snub the hammer so that it forms the part under proper pre

from The Library of Congress

• Eric Hunt said:

  *love* this shot! It really illustrates the progression of heavy industry from fully manual before the industrial revolution to the full automation of today.

• dursun_sakarya said:

  Remember when the US government encouraged the growıng of hemp!

• Arashi Kage said:

  i thought this was a video game screenshot

• patterson2 said:

  Re the caption section about Mustangs- It was a pretty much a futile CANADIAN raid on Dieppe, with British commando, RAF and RN support. A cynical manouevre on the part of the Brits to blood untried troops with lots of finger pointing afterwards.

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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• E. Howe said:

  Whoa! What an incredible image. I am SO glad to see that Black women worked on aircraft, too. I love her nail polish, and her ring. I'd LOVE to know her name, if she's still alive. This is such an outstanding portrait!

• Nicola Hunt said:

  this is outstanding...i also noticed the details of her appearence as well as the clear reflection and sharp focus...this is just so rad to have on flickr!

• Liz Rizzo said:

  Beautiful and inspiring.

• Descriptive Bottle said:

  What an amazing time captured on film forever!

• kenorland said:

  Okay, they never taught us that black women also worked as Rosie. What a crime of omission! So cool to see this.

Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 40 older comments, and then…
• Jonas Sveningsson said:

  Wow. Awesome picture!

• Famous Duck said:

  nice. he looks like quite the character.

• Marmalade_Photography said:

  awesome portrait.

• Marc Levin said:

  amazing!

• Agreeable Rake said:

  Love the blue sky and detail on the propeller, I love the quality of this, will digital hold up this well for future viewers?