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155mm Shells at the Alabama Army Ammunition Plant four miles north of Childersburg, Alabama - June 1942
The Alabama Army Ammunition Plant was built in 1941 and was operated by DuPont. The facility produced nitrocellulose (NC), trinitrotoluene (TNT), dinitrotoluene (DNT), tetryl, and single-base smokeless powder. At its peak, production was nearly 40 million pounds of munitions per month and also produced heavy water for the Manhattan Project.
The complex covered more than 35,000 acres and was closed in August 1945.
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Wow, Great Photos.......interesting, thanks for posting!! (Y)
 
155mm Shells at the Alabama Army Ammunition Plant four miles north of Childersburg, Alabama - June 1942
The Alabama Army Ammunition Plant was built in 1941 and was operated by DuPont. The facility produced nitrocellulose (NC), trinitrotoluene (TNT), dinitrotoluene (DNT), tetryl, and single-base smokeless powder. At its peak, production was nearly 40 million pounds of munitions per month and also produced heavy water for the Manhattan Project.
The complex covered more than 35,000 acres and was closed in August 1945.
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This is why we had steel pennies and silver nickels for a while during the war - tons of copper were needed for driving bands on artillery ammo... that and cartridge cases, of course.
 
78' Higgins PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats on the assembly line at the Higgins Factory in New Orleans in 1943. Higgins produced almost 200 of these torpedo boats during the Second World War.
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Removing no.3 gun from a 14 inch quadruple gun mounting in 24 Shop, Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, 30 April 1940
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‘Workshop of the World’ is a phrase often used to describe Britain’s manufacturing dominance during the Nineteenth Century. It’s also a very apt description for the Elswick Works and Scotswood Works of Vickers Armstrong and its predecessor companies. These great factories, situated in Newcastle along the banks of the River Tyne, employed hundreds of thousands of men and women and built a huge variety of products for customers around the globe.
The Elswick Works was established by William George Armstrong (later Lord Armstrong) in 1847 to manufacture hydraulic cranes. From these relatively humble beginnings the company diversified into many fields including shipbuilding, armaments and locomotives. By 1953 the Elswick Works covered 70 acres and extended over a mile along the River Tyne
 
Staff work on rolled-up sections of assembled Panther tracks.
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The youngest person on Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk) was just 12 years old apparently. It’s thought he stowed away on one of Pickford's little 50 Ton Motor Lighters called the "Bee" where he used to help out at weekends and on school holidays, the crew didn't find him until they were well on the way from Portsmouth to Ramsgate.
Bee, under her Master W E Trowbridge reached Dunkirk on the 31st May and after lying three miles off shore all one night, was placed along shore and took 360 British troops aboard. These were later transferred to a tug. Later ten British and five French troops were taken from small boats and brought back to England, landing the men at Ramsgate.
Another book has her returning to Ramsgate at 1655hrs on the 31st May 1940 with 7 passengers.
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On 26 October 1941, munition workers drawn from all sections of one of the many firms working on tank production visited a modern British Army tank unit in Wellingborough, Northants and discussed, with the tank crews, how their work stands up in action.
In the photo, a tank corps sergeant from the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry points out some of the instruments made by the women inside the turret of a Covenanter cruiser tank of 9th Armoured Division. The women were from Smiths of Cricklewood, a London firm responsible for producing tank speedometers.
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Worker with pistons for a Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine at the Packard Plant in Detroit - 1941
In September 1940, An agreement was reached between Rolls-Royce and Packard to manufacture the Merlin under license.
The first Packard-built Merlin engine, designated V-1650-1, ran in August 1941.
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13 October 1939. A parcels office at a big London railway station has been opened as a canteen for soldiers passing through in pursuance of a scheme to make the waiting time troops must spend at stations in these days more comfortable. Girl helpers are giving up several hours of their time each day to waiting on the troops. Lady Thomas pouring out tea for the troops at the canteen in the London railway station
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Aldwych Station being used as an air raid shelter, 1940. People resting and sleeping on the platform and track of Aldwych Underground Station in London during the Blitz.
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A worker rolling steel for a submarine hull at Electric Boat Company Groton, Connecticut - 1943.
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Newly manufactured MZ-1 USMC / USN Radio Jeeps await shipment overseas in 1944 Note the white "S" stencilled on the side of their hoods.
These particular Jeeps were built specially for the USN & USMC, and are MZ-1 Radio Jeeps. The TCS radios are stowed in the two boxes fitted on the rear wheel arches. The "S" stands for Suppression / Shielding that was fitted to these Jeeps to prevent the electrical operation of the engine from interfering with the radio sets.
There is a small generator which powered the radios fitted between the two front seats, an example of which can just be seen on the second Jeep to the right of the photo.
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Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engines lined up ready for installation on Consolidated B-24 Liberators at the Willow Run Ford Aircraft Plant in Michigan - 1943
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Female Workers at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey doing their part for the war effort - 1943
At the start of WW2, Picatinny Arsenal was one of the few facilities already setup with the ability to manufacture munitions, over 18,000 people worked at the Arsenal in three shifts turning out bombs and artillery shells.
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M1 Garands are stacked in racks in front of Springfield Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts - 1940
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