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Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Mayna Lentz performs a milling machine operation on the pawl pin of a machine gun that will tell the Axis about the superiority of American weapons. This girl operator in a large Eastern plant is one of many women arsenal workers producing essential weap
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Credit lineProduction. Machine guns of various calibers. Mayna Lentz performs a milling machine operation on the pawl pin of a machine gun that will tell the Axis about the superiority of American weapons. This . 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Feininger, Andreas. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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