Photos The Ladies In Color

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Take a look at these fantastic and rare collection of color photos of WW2. To view all, please visit the following link below:

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http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/01/segunda-guerra-em-cores-mulheres-nas.html


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Actually these photos are not rare at all. Really. They are part of the Office of War Information collection. They are readily available in the US Library of Congress. There are dozens upon dozens of them. These photos are all over the internet. Now that I've found this thread..perhaps this weekend I'll post a few...like this..I'll try not to post photos provided in the link.



December 1941. "Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information



Clinton, Iowa. April 1943. "Chicago & North Western Railroad. Women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant H-class locomotives." In the red bandanna: Marcella Hart, seen here in a few other posts. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.



February 1943. "Mrs. Mary Betchner measuring 105mm howitzers at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, plant of the Chain Belt Company. Her son is in the Army; her husband and daughter are in war work." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information.
 
I think the poster of the link used the word 'Rare' to drive viewers to the page he has the images on. It is a common thing to see on the internet.

Such as " TAKE A LOOK AT THESE RARE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IMAGES" I have never followed a link titled that and seen pics never seen before.

It is also clear that the poster uses MI.Net for publicity as he never posts anything other than a link as above. I have no real issue with that as it does help members to find images and information that may be useful to them.

Also sometimes (like now) it generates a topic of conversation.

You posts whatever images you like buddy. we enjoy seeing them
 
Bombardier... Thank you.

"TAKE A LOOK AT THESE RARE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IMAGES".. What you describe is called click bait. And I look because I know it is not rare. In a forum long ago someone posted photos of the attack on Pearl Harbor claiming the photos to have been found in a Brownie camera in a attic. Actually I recoginized the photos were from a site called navsource.org and the Naval Historical Society...readily available for anyone to see.



Title: "Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland
  • Creator(s): Delano, Jack, photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1941 Sept.



  • At the Vermont state fair, Rutland
  • Creator(s): Delano, Jack, photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1941 Sept.
 


  • Winner at the Delta County Fair, Colorado
  • Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1940 Oct.


  • Title: Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.
  • Creator(s): Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1942 Jan.


  • Title: Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico
  • Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1940 Oct.


  • "Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mildred Webb, an NYA trainee at the base, is learning to operate a cutting machine in the Assembly and Repair Department. After about eight weeks as an apprentice she will be eligible for a civil service job in the capacity for which she has been trained
  • Creator(s): Hollem, Howard R., photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1942 August


  • Title: Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Calif.
  • Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1942 June
 


Japanese-American internment camp, war emergency evacuation, 1942 or 43[Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.]



Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas..August 1942. Howard R. Hollem, , photographer



Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas..August 1942....Howard R. Hollem, photographer



Helen Ryan, age 41 (with cap), widow and used to work in a show factory, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service any day, brother in the army. She used to be a clerk in a department store. Unmasking and checking parts of the gasoline trailers that will be turned over to the Air Force. FEB 1943....Howard R. Hollem, photographer
 


Women War workers place not noted....1942



October 1942..A young woman riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the south Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men -- and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions. photo by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information



October 1942...in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., checking to see if the proper numbers of parts were received and placed in the proper bin, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe. photo by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information

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July 1942...Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company Mills, Manchester, Conn. William M Rittase, 1894-1968, photographer
 


  • A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background
  • Creator(s):, Alfred T Palmer., photographer..1942..



Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C. 1943..



Rural school girl, San Augustine County, Texas April 1943



Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort....Alfred T Palmer., photographer..SEPT 1942..



Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. Ralph Angar, instructor, explains propeller characteristics to student in the aeronautics class....Alfred T Palmer., photographer...September 1942
 


Title: Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico
Creator: Lee Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1940 Oct.



Title:Boy building a model airplane as girl watches, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.
Creator:Arthur Rothstein, , 1915-1985, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1942 Jan.



Title: Girl with doll standing by fence..location unknown.
Date Created/Published: [between 1941 and 1942]



Answering the nation's need for woman power, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Both are employed under Civil Service in the Assembly and repair department. Mrs. Davis' training will enable her to take the place of her husband should he be called by the armed service
Creator:Howard Hollem, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1942 August
 


This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber in Long Beach, California, She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. 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, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions. Photo taken in October, 1942



Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, at the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California, in October of 1942.



Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Both are employed under Civil Service in the Assembly and repair department. Mrs. Davis' training will enable her to take the place of her husband should he be called by the armed service. Photo taken in August, 1942



With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job in Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under civil service. Photographed in August of 1942



Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American Aviation's Inglewood, California, plant, in October of 1942



Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, October, 1942



Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill. Photographed in August of 1942.
 


Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif OCT 1942



Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, Inglewood, Calif. assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane OCT 1942



Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies. June 1942



Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. FEB 1943



Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic in the Assembly and Repair Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
 


Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, 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, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions.



The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California. October 1942.



An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California. October 1942.
 


Riveter at work on a Consolidated bomber at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. October 1942.



Woman machinist at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California. October 1942.



This woman worker at the Vultee Aircraft plant in Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear. This is one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass production of Vultee “Vengeance” dive bombers during World War II. February 1943.



Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the “Vengeance” (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee’s Nashville division, Tennessee. The “Vengeance” (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers. February 1943.
 


The Universal Cyclops Steel Manufacturers Laboratory in Titusville, Pennsylvania, circa 1943. Kodachrome slide by Ralph E. Archer who owned and operated Archer Camera in Titusville with his wife from 1929 to 1961. Archer had worked at Cyclops during the 1920s and again during WWII leaving his wife to run the camera shop for the duration of the war. Pictured here are four of his fellow workers, whose names are unknown, and his daughter Shirley A. Archer.



February 1943. Lucille Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. Working at the Heil and Co. factory in Milwaukee on blackout lamps to be used on Air Force gasoline trailers. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard R. Hollem for the Office of War Information.
 
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February 1943. "Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now the only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, maker of gasoline trailers for the Army Air Forces." Medium format Kodachrome by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information.



August 1942. Corpus Christi, Texas. "Women from all fields have joined the production army. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base and a schoolteacher 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 American insignia on repaired Navy plane wings." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information.



February 1943. Working on the horizontal stabilizer of a "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Consolidated-Vultee plant in Nashville. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.



October 1942. "Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach." Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information. View full size.
 
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