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USA of the 1940's in HQ Colour Restored Photos Pt.2 [24 Pics]

Jul 30 2012

The follow up to our part one of amazing photos from the USA during the WW2 era. Share and enjoy!

All photos are restored and published by Shorpy.

"Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at work on the TVA's Douglas Dam in Tennessee (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Consolidated-Vultee's Nashville division (1943). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Servicing an A-20 bomber at Langley Field, Virginia (1940). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Assembling switchboxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Workers installing fixtures and assemblies in the tail section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Students at Washington High School in Los Angeles training for specific contributions to the war effort (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Working on the horizontal stabilizer of a "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Consolidated-Vultee plant in Nashville (1943). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

A mechanic cleaning an air box for the engine of the truck. Fort Knox, Kentucky (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Goodyear Aircraft, Akron, Ohio. Formerly an aircraft dock, this huge building, thought to be the largest in the world with no interior supports (1941). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Douglas Aircraft Co. at Long Beach, California. Carefully trained women inspectors check cargo transport inner-wings before they are assembled on the fuselage (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Infantryman with half-track. A young soldier sights his Garand rifle like an old-timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation being hauled along an outdoor assembly line (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes being prepared for test flight near the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

A new B-25 bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Kansas City, Kansas, plant of North American Aviation (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.

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 (1943). Photo by Howard Hollem.

Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (1942). Photo by Howard Hollem.

Rita Rodriguez. Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports at Consolidated Aircraft, Fort Worth, Texas (1942). Photo by Howard Hollem.

Corpus Christi, Texas. Women from all fields have joined the production army (1942). Photo by Howard Hollem.

Fruit Store and Capital Hotel at 10th and P, Lincoln, Nebraska (1942). Photo by John Vachon.

Columbia Steel Co. at Geneva, Utah (1942). Photo by Andreas Feininger.

Columbia Steel at Geneva, Utah. Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day on the construction site of a new steel plant needed for the war effort (1942). Photo by Andreas Feininger.

Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Jesse Rhodes Waller, aviation ordnance mate third class, tries out a 30-caliber machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane (1942). Photo by Howard Hollem

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