20-year-old Mary Josephine Farley working on her Wright Whirlwind aircraft motor that she rebuilt, October 1942
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The USS Enterprise being hit during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons by the Japanese in August 1942; the photographer, Robert Frederick Read, was killed taking the photograph.
February 21, 2013, 12:00pm / 79
Former waitress Eastine Cowner, now scaler at the Kaiser Shipyards, working on the Liberty Ship SS George Washington Carver, 1943
February 20, 2013, 11:41pm / 60
Chaplain Joseph O’Callahan ministers to an injured man aboard the USS Franklin, 1945
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Canadian soldiers resting after fighting for Juno, 6 June 1944
February 20, 2013, 4:00pm / 164
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