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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. This modern "spinning wheel" would astound our grandmothers, and so would the young woman who operates it. One of America's thousands of skilled women war workers, this young Midwesterner twirls the wheel that controls the drilling of holes in machine
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Credit lineWomen in war. Machine gun production operators. This modern "spinning wheel" would astound our grandmothers, and so would the young woman who operates it. One of America's thousands of skilled women w. 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Rosener, Ann. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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