Bell Aircraft Corporation. Niagara Falls, New York. Woman cutting a long piece of aluminum into shorter lengths with a metal cutter in the shearing department, as shorter pieces are easier for the machine operator to handle. The outlined shape on each piece is then cut out by machine

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Metal stretching on a burring machine. These airplane parts have just come through a drop press and this machine takes out the bumps. Worker wears safety shoes, which have a metal plate inside the toe for protection

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Employees must buy their own tools. Many women are learning the use of tools for the first time

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Stack drilling from a template. The sign in the background shows that the department has a 100% war bond purchase record Creator(s): Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer Date Created/Published: 1943 May. Medium:; 3 1/4 x 4

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Woman welder who has been welding the ejection chutes of fifty callibre machine guns

Buffalo, New York. Esther O'Hara, twenty-six, is a shearman's helper trimming defects from machine gun barrels at Republic Steel. She prefers her job to housework

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Gladys Chase (left), former beautician, using an acetylene torch to burn defects from a twenty-foot steel billet which will later be shaped into a machine gun barrel. It takes six months to learn this process, which is called scarfing

Bell Aircraft Corp. Niagara Falls, New York. Riveter on the final assembly line of Bell Airacobras

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Safety goggles and masks are worn by workers on operations where their eyes might be endangered by metal fragments