File:Woman assembling life raft seat during WWII (40691297030).jpg

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Description Lot-2058-3: Make Your Scrap Tires Save Lives. Emergency life rafts, of the kind that has saved many men at sea, are made in a number of American rubber plants. Here a woman worker applies strong tape bindings to an inflatable seat which will become part of a raft. The completed raft is designed to accommodate three men and has a load capacity of 1,000 pounds, circa WWII. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2018/06/01).
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/40691297030 (archive). It was reviewed on 11 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

11 July 2018

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This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.

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current05:02, 11 July 2018Thumbnail for version as of 05:02, 11 July 20182,649 × 2,111 (3.81 MB)Hiàn (alt) (talk | contribs)Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons

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