Palmer, Alfred T.
Palmer, Alfred T. 1903-1993
Alfred T. Palmer
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Palmer, Alfred T. ‡d 1903-1993
- 100 1 _ ‡a Palmer, Alfred T. ‡d 1903-1993
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- 510 2 _ ‡a USA ‡b Office of War Information
- 510 2 _ ‡a USA ‡b Office of War Information ‡e Affiliation
- 510 2 _ ‡a United States. Farm Security Administration
- 510 2 _ ‡a United States. Office for Emergency Management
- 510 2 _ ‡a United States. Office of War Information
- 510 2 _ ‡a United States. Office of War Information. Bureau of Public Inquiries
Works
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Aluminum collection. A store window display in New York, New York, promoting the National Defense Aluminum Collection (July 21-29, 1941). This collection was conducted by the Office of Civilian Defense and some of the aluminum obtained will be for use in industries producing for national defense. Much of the lower grade aluminum collected which cannot be used directly for this purpose will be used to replace new aluminum in the manufacture of consumer goods, and hence release this new aluminum for use in defense production | |
Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. | |
Clouds. No clouds of war these, but peaceful carriers of rains that help broad acres of Kentucky farmland to bear life-giving crops for the nation's needs | |
Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day | |
Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Soldier of the armored forces. After he has completed his training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he'll know a lot of new ways to put the heat on the Axis | |
Fort Benning. Halftrac scout cars. America's irresistable might grows every day. Soldiers of the armored forces training in halftrac scout cars at Fort Benning, Georgia are turning rapidly into hard, smart fighting men | |
Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. When this fine American soldier, just finishing a hardening up course at Fort Benning, Georgia, gives you the red light, remember he's an expert at stopping traffic | |
Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia who bailed out of a plane a few minutes ago is about ready to take the ground and perform the little chore of getting his chute under control | |
Fort Benning paratroopers. Among the Army's best utility men are the paratroopers. The soldier of the skies, all set to bail out above Fort Benning, Georgia, leaps into quick effective action as soon as he reaches his objective | |
Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun | |
Fort Knox. Electric power line construction. The electrical industry of America relies largely on the "broadback" or lineman, to bring its power to the places where it is needed. This man is working on the construction of a transmission line to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where American soldiers are training for the battles of democracy | |
Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism | |
Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. This light tank, used at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for training and hardening crews for the armored forces, is helping to turn out fighters who will give the Axis some new ideas of what trouble really is | |
Fort Knox, Kentucky. M-3 tanks. The M-3 tank packs a wallop which the Axis is only beginning to feel. One of these capable monsters, with a tough American crew aboard, is put through its paces in the training area near Fort Knox, Kentucky | |
Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. M-3 tank crew members, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, get intensive practice in meeting every situation that may arise on the battlefield. The Fort Knox school for tank crews has graduated many men who are now ready to meet the Axis on our far-flung battle lines and on more than equal terms | |
Fort Knox. Power line construction. This husky member of a construction crew, building a new 33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox, Kentucky, is performing an important war service. Thousands of soldiers are in training at Fort Knox, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisville is needed to supplement the existing power supply | |
Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to fight, ours to keep him supplied with the weapons of war | |
In the massive cast-steel hull of this M-4 tank, a crew of hard-bitten "tankers" is rehearsing a few fighting tricks at a training school of the armored forces at Fort Knox, Kentucky | |
Lipstick en smeerolie : vrouwen in de Amerikaanse oorlogsindustrie : kleurenfoto's 1941-1943 | |
M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox., Ky. | |
Members of joint labor-management committees at Pottsville, July 30th | |
Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of one of our new bombers. He, his gun and his plane are typical of the personnel and equipment that have gained world respect for the American Air Force | |
Mitchell Field. Eagle ready for battle. An American pursuit pilot in combat gear is all set to climb into his plane. His flying equipment includes a combined oxygen mask and throat-type microphone, headphones, parachute and Mae West life jacket | |
Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. This plant is working at full capacity to produce oil for the military machines fighting to preserve democracy | |
"Open the doors," says Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist, to Manager Sloan of the National and Civilian Defense Exposition at New York's Grand Central Palace. In the background is part of the 15 x 30 foot poster Carlu designed for the Office of Emergency Management (OEM). The panel shown represents the Arsenal of Democracy while another of equal size is entitled The Four Freedoms. These panels, designed according to a technique in photomontage used only once before, will be seen in a number of cities from coast to coast | |
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee | |
Parris Island. Marine Corps. "And we're proud to bear the title of U.S. Marines." Your true leatherneck, adept at every specialized branch of modern warfare, is just plain soldier at the core. These marines, finishing training at Parris Island, uphold the soldierly traditions of the nation's finest corps | |
Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. Glad he's on our side, not theirs. This lieutenant of the Marine Corps, studying glider piloting at Page Field, Parris Island, South Carolina, may some day land in battle dress on the outskirts of Berlin or Tokyo or on the heel of Italy's boot | |
Parris Island, South Carolina. Special United States Marine units in training bedding down a big barrage balloon | |
Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Trainees ready for flight | |
A poster comes to life. He doesn't wear a sergeant's stripes or a captain's bars, but he's an essential soldier of the home front, just as vital to the winning of this war as the men in uniform on America's myriad battlefields. A steelworker, whose job includes shoveling limestone into an electric furnace, is helping to produce the weapons to smash the Axis | |
Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?" | |
Production. A-20 attack bombers. Myriads of lights at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company form pleasing star patterns in the shatterproof plexiglass windows of noses for A-20 attack bombers. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns | |
Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Model makers prepare accurately sealed minatures of planes built at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. Here an experimental model of the P-51 ("Mustang") is being finished for wind tunnel and other tests. 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 | |
Production. B-25 bombers. New B-25 bombers lined up for final inspection and tests at the flying field of a Western Aircraft plant. General Doolittle, who flew in a B-25 in the raid on Tokyo, has called this ship the best military plane in existence. It performs brilliantly at its 25,000-foot ceiling. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City | |
Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Final "Valiant" basic trainer assembly line at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine | |
Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. First Liberty Ship named for a Negro, the SS Booker T. Washington is shown at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yards a short time before it was christened by Marian Anderson, the celebrated contralto. The cargo vessel was placed in command of Captain Hugh Mulzac, a Negro skipper. | |
Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed in a Midwest plant by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die. Tube Turn Incorporated | |
Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for combat planes. In the "half-round method," a half log, after being heated in water to the proper temperature, is bolted on a stay log and revolved against a stationary knife. The sheets, as they fall from the knife, are stacked in proper sequence just as they were in the log. Louisville, Kentucky | |
Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone | |
Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are the men whose skill is devoted to the building of the finest, most powerful fleet of naval vessels the world has ever seen. They are leaving the gates of the yard after their regular shift | |
Shipbuilding (Newport News). This worker is touching up one of the huge condensers for a U. S.Navy destroyer under construction | |
Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men whose hands are fashioning powerful new additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly expanding naval forces. A few miles away at the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, other thousands are also coming off their shifts. This scene is typical of dozens of shipyards throughout the nation. Shipyard workers have a lot to smile about, for invariably they have done their work so well and efficiently that production is ahead of schedule | |
Smoke stacks | |
Tank commander, Ft. Knox, Ky. | |
Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Mass assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts | |
Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A workman on a cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precaution in the form of a life preserver strapped to this worker | |
Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphate fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill | |
Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension lines that carry current generated at the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system | |
Transformer manufacture. Forming the heart of the giant transformers which manufacture power for America's war production plants, these spools of copper wire are lifted by a crane, guided into place by a worker. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania | |
Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies | |
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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Chattanooga, Tennessee. Freight cars and oil tanks in the railroad yards] | |
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Parris Island, South Carolina. Tactical formations of barrage balloons prevent dive bombing and the strafing of important ground installations. The Leathernecks are developing an excellent technique in this method of protecting important locations from enemy aircraft] | |
Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it | |
Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. | |
YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. Skilled soldier-mechanics make up the gorund crew personnel of a bombardment squadron stationed at Langley Field, Virginia. These men keep ships like the fast YB-17 bombers in the pink of condition |