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Close up view of the tower foremast of USS Washington, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, 18 Aug 1942	USS Ranger off Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States, 18 Aug 1942. Good view of Ranger’s unique stack arrangement, 3 on each side designed to rotate to an outward horizontal position for flight operations.	View of stern of USS Washington, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, 18 Aug 1942	Electric Boat workers preparing submarine Harder for launching, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 19 Aug 1942

PT-109 stowed on board the Liberty Ship Joseph Stanton for transportation to the Pacific Ocean, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, 20 Aug 1942, photo 1 of 2	PT-109 stowed on board the Liberty Ship Joseph Stanton for transportation to the Pacific Ocean, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, 20 Aug 1942, photo 2 of 2	Battleship Iowa being prepared for launching, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, late Aug 1942	Laying the keel of submarine Dorado, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 27 Aug 1942

Battleship Iowa shortly after launching, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, late Aug 1942	Doherty (as HMS Berry) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 29 Aug 1942	African-American welder Ernest Enloe Cotton learning from a more experienced colleague while building Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington, California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Los Angeles, California, United States, Sep 1942	Battleship Iowa being fitted out at New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, fall 1942
			$Mousetrap rocket controller box, Key West, Florida, Sep 1942. It is fairly simple on the front but it is a complex tangle of wires inside designed to ignite each rocket in sequence with a fraction of a second in between$
CalShip journeyman welder Jesse Kermit Lucas and his apprentice, Rodney Gail Chesney, while they were working on Liberty-ship Booker T Washington, Los Angeles, California, United States, Sep 1942.	Captured A6M Zero fighter 'Akutan Zero' flying over San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942	Liberty-ship Booker T Washington on the ways at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, Sep 1942. Note the pre-fabricated double-bottom sections ready for the next ship to be laid down on these ways (Robert C Grier).	Mousetrap rocket controller box, Key West, Florida, Sep 1942. It is fairly simple on the front but it is a complex tangle of wires inside designed to ignite each rocket in sequence with a fraction of a second in between

Preparing 16-inch guns for installation on USS Iowa, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, fall 1942	Sailors with a loaded Mousetrap rocket array, probably fall of 1942 at Key West, Florida, United States.	SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of Scouting Squadron VS-41 turning toward the carrier USS Ranger in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, United States, Sep 1942.	Shipyard worker working on a turret aboard battleship Iowa, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, fall 1942