Rare color photos: 1940s working women

Aug. 1942

Ms. Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base, and a school teacher before the war, is doing her part for victory along with her brother who is a flying instructor in the Army. Weaver paints the American insignia on repaired Navy plane wings.

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