Images of America 1940-1945
B25 Bombers at North American Aviation. Kansas City, KS, October, 1042. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer.
Boys Waiting outside Grocery Store with Wagons for Jobs Delivering Groceries. Greenbelt, MD November, 1942. Photo by Ann Rosener. Library of Congress collections.
Schoolchildren Learning about the Scrap Drive. Roanoke, VA, October, 1942. Photo by Howard Lieberman. Library of Congress collections.
Making canvas containers for Army gas masks. Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. June, 1942. Photo by Jack Delano. Library of Congress collections.
Women railroad workers on lunch break, Clinton, Iowa. April, 1943. Photo by Jack Delano. Library of Congress collections.
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to tail fuselage section of B-17 bomber at Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, CA. October, 1942. Photo by Douglas Palmer. Library of Congress collections
Working on a Vengeance Dive Bomber at the Vultee Nashville plant. February, 1942. Photo by Alfred Palmer. Library of Congress collections
Riveting the fuselage of a Liberator Bomber. October, 1942. Photo by Howard Hollem. Library of Congress collections.
Woman Shopping With Rationing Book, 1942 — Library of Congress Photo
Distributing Surplus Commodities, St. Johns AZ. October, 1942. Photo by Russell Lee.
Locomotives in the Roundhouse, Chicago, Illinois. December, 1942. Photo by Jack Delano.
Flying Fortress B17 Bomber, Langley Field, Virginia. July, 1942. Photo by Alfred Palmer.
Drugstore With Price-Control Display. Washington, DC, September, 1942. Photo by Howard Lieberman.
Gasoline Rationing Poster, 1942.
Gas Station and Rationing Sign. Twin Falls County, Idaho. July, 1942. Photo by Russell Lee.
Washing A Santa Fe Railroad 54 Hundred HP Diesel Freight Locomotive. Argentine, Kansas, March, 1943. Photo by Jack Delano.
Women Installing Aircraft Engine. Douglas Aircraft, October, 1942. Long Beach, Califiornia. Photo by Alfred Palmer.
Women Gossiping in a Drugstore over Cokes. March, 1943. Photo by Esther Bubley.
We hope you enjoy this gallery of photos from 1940-1945. All the images on this page are from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photograph collection housed in the Library of Congress.
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