Wife. Mother. Engineer. With our able bodied boys fighting overseas, the heavy lifting has been left in the capable hands of their wives.
Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc.
Photo By: Howard R. Hollem
Via: library_of_congress
The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
Photo By: Alfred Palmer
Via: library_of_congress
With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under civil service.
Photo By: Howard R. Hollem
Via: library_of_congress
Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas.
Photo By: Howard R. Hollem
Via: library_of_congress