Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s

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Women are contributing their skills to the nation's needs by keeping our country's planes in top-notch fighting condition, Corpus Christi, Texas. Wife of a disabled World War I veteran, Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base. Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in

Women gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Company 8d10745v

Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory.

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop

Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi, Texas. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base, and a school teacher before the war, is doing her part for victory along with her brother who is a flying instructor in the Army. Miss Weaver paints the Amer

Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy tr

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.

Women at work on Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Women aircraft workers. One of the hundreds of young women employed in a West Coast aircraft factory applies identifying marking tape to plumbing sub-assemblies. Vega

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes for Uncle Sam's fighing flyers at a West Coast plant. Here, Mrs. Fern Evans, Pearl Harbor widow, works on a radio bracket for a bomber with a young mechanic. Mrs. Evans, who had no previous mechanical experience when she applied for

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West Coast's huge aircraft plants. These two are working on an electrical control panel

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. ( ) - Flickr - The

Women working at Douglas Aircraft

Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber the "Flying Fortress" at the Long Beach, California plant of Douglas Aircraft Company.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Women Working in WWII

Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif.

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Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the south Pacific, Germany and el

Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Women working at Douglas Aircraft (cropped)

Women workers at quartermaster depot 1942 May 8b03053

Women workers at quartermaster depot. The nimble fingers of many American women are now contributing to the war effort in various quartermaster corps depots. This elderly woman is handstitching sleeves on an army overcoat. Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps

Women workers at quartermaster corps. Women workers of all racial groups are being drawn into war production. These employees of an Eastern quartermaster corps depot are sewing sleeves into army overcoats. Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps

Women working in needlework factory, Santurce, January 1942

Woodward Ave Detroit 1942

Worker at carbon black plant

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Worker at the mill

Women airport workers.

Women aircraft workers.

Women airport workers.

Work horses near Junction City, Kansas

Work goes on 24 hours a day at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

Work goes on 24 hours a day at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Worker detail, Mounting motor on a Fairfax B-25 bomber, at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif (cropped)

Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. First meeting of the Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission held on October 1, 1942. The committee is to aid in mobilizing women workers for the war effort. Standing, left to right: Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, Mrs. Beatrice Gould

Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. At the first meeting of the Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission on October 1, 1942, three members get acquainted. They are, left to right: Maudelle Bousfield, Margaret A. Hickey, chairman; and Sara Southall. The committee w

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Wife and son of an agricultural laborer who are permanent residents and live in one of the garden houses

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Wife and son of an agricultural worker who live in a garden house

Workers on the Liberator Bombers, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.

Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas. As an NYA trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.

Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

World War II woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California 1942

Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif