Factory workers at A-20 (Fighter-Bomber Army plane) engine line in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California during World War 2, supplying aircraft for the war effort. Women factory workers make adjustments to engines in a Pratt-Whitney engine line. Close up of a woman worker at work on an aircraft engine. African American workmen stack plexiglass parts for bomber aircraft gun or bombing sights. Ex-sailor works on wing of aircraft. Shirtless worker removes an aircraft tire from a rack of tires and rolls it by hand. Propaganda cartoon poster above the rack shows a frightened Hideki Tojo up a tree and reads 'Tokio Kid Say' and shows an attack dog below, keeping him in the tree, and wearing a collar that says, "Conservation," encouraging workers to conserve and use factory resources wisely for the war effort in order to beat the Japanese.
Old man works on multiple-bit drill press in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California, during World War 2. Old men work on grinders. Both elderly women and young women war production workers in upholstering department. Women war workers wear protective helmets and shields and serve as welders. They weld parts in the aircraft factory to aid the war effort.
Ted Allen, a record-holder in horseshoe pitching, demonstrates amazing skill in Long Beach, California, United States. Ted Allen, wearing a bowtie, holds horseshoes. Spectators gathered around the enclosure watch. He demonstrates several fancy and dangerous stunt shots in horseshoe pitching. Among them: He places horseshoes perfectly while his assistant's face is right next to the target stake. He knocks the end of a pipe from his attendant's mouth with a horseshoe, while the pipe stem stays intact. He lights a pack of matches resting against the stake by throwing a horseshoe precisely to scrape the matches against the metal stake.
Boat race for small one-person motorboats underway in Long Beach, California. Large crowd on shore. Two boys riding speedboats narrowly escape drowning when their boats capsize.
Women pilots during an air show in Long Beach, California. A large number of people gather to watch the air show. Women pilots walk . The pilots pose and smile. Aircraft take off from a field. The aircraft in flight. Various stunts being performed as the aircraft roll, drop vertically and then climb up. The aircraft emit contrails.
A swimming tube being demonstrated in Long Beach, California. Toshichi Nakamura with a swimming tube around his waist. The swimming tube is equipped with two propellers. He jumps into water from the deck of a ship. Nakamura walks to the shore with the swimming tube around his waist.
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