Vintage work crew photos

**Hoosiersmoker** · Oct 1, 2019, 04:09 AM

I wonder if it has to do with being directly behind the prop?

**IntheGroove** · Oct 1, 2019, 08:50 AM

You think the guy in the aft that cranks over the engine gets to man a machine gun...

**Jon** · Oct 1, 2019, 11:22 AM

Ship fitters, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, circa 1943.

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**Frank S** · Oct 1, 2019, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Jon

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The lady in the center has the perfect tool for the job of freeing a sticky valve stem just tap on it a few times.
If it hadn't been for the women during the wars there is no way the allied forces could have defeated the foes.

**jimfols** · Oct 1, 2019, 06:17 PM

"Ship fitters, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, circa 1943. "

I was a child but I remember everyone having an attitude of working together for the common good.

**Jon** · Oct 2, 2019, 11:03 AM

U.S. Navy sailors paint the forward stack of the troop transport USS General J.C. Breckinridge (AP-176).

Taken from the March 1950 issue of U.S. Navy All Hands Magazine.

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**Ralphxyz** · Oct 2, 2019, 03:14 PM

Hand scraping and painting, wonder about exposure to lead paint?

**IntheGroove** · Oct 2, 2019, 06:38 PM

Not everyone was wearing a hard hat, if those are hard hats...

**Toolmaker51** · Oct 3, 2019, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

Not everyone was wearing a hard hat, if those are hard hats...

Conical shape of some tells me they are standard uniform 'Dixie Cups', brims flipped down for a little extra shade. Anchor clankers are hardheaded enough, I ought to know.
Took 26 years to figure it out!