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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shops, where many of the 26,000 workers in the yard fashion metal parts for the ships under construction for the Navy
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Credit lineShipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shops, where many of the 26,000 workers in the yard fashion metal parts for the ships under construction for the Navy. 1941-01-01. United States. Office For Emergency Management, Palmer, Alfred T.. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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