Loading anti-aircraft cases into a stress-annealing furnace to make them soft, uniform, and ductite-ready for succeeding machine operations.

Photo shows Aluminum Industries, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. They'll be doing war work soon. When the last batch of ladies' compacts is cleaned at a converted Kentucky plant, these girls will use their skill in the prduction of bomb fuse baffles, compass cases and parts for carbine and machine guns. Wadsworth Watch C

The hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the Axis. American women are rapidly taking their places on the industrial front. Here in this small factory, the owner's wife operates one of the machines making dies for incendiary bombs.

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war production in. One of the last batches of luxury items is put through a Kentucky watch case plant now engaged in the production of gun parts, fuse baffles, compass cases and other essentials for our fighters. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louis

Casting a billet from an electric furnace, Chase Brass and Copper Co., Euclid, Ohio. Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cast from the tilted furnace into a mold to form

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are working on building forms used in the manufacture of sel

Filling the Arsenals

3023 Fingers of Destruction.