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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Squaring away for war Production. When the last batch of watch cases goes down the line of punch presses at a Kentucky factory, the trained operator will begin turning out compass cases, radio parts and small carbine machine gun parts for our armed forces.
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Credit lineConversion. Watch cases to war production. Squaring away for war Production. When the last batch of watch cases goes down the line of punch presses at a Kentucky factory, the trained operator will beg. 1942-01-01. Palmer, Alfred T., United States. Office For Emergency Management. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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