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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is milling an aluminum alloy flap hinge forging to be used on American fighting planes. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York
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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is milling an aluminum alloy flap hinge forging to be used on American fighting planes. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York

Gruber, Edward, United States. Office Of War Information · 1942-01-01 · photo, print, drawing

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Credit lineConversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is milling an aluminum alloy fl. 1942-01-01. Gruber, Edward, United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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