Vintage work crew photos

**Jon** · Sep 11, 2022, 10:07 AM

Workers installing boilers at the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company. Downs, WV. 1925.

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**IntheGroove** · Sep 11, 2022, 11:45 AM

They could be removing them...

**Jon** · Sep 18, 2022, 10:07 AM

R.L. Taylor Motor Co. workers. Washington, D.C. 1923.

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**IntheGroove** · Sep 18, 2022, 03:22 PM

Gotta love the torque tube...

**Jon** · Sep 25, 2022, 10:07 AM

Office of War Information workers. Chicago, IL. January, 1943.

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**Jon** · Oct 2, 2022, 10:07 AM

Tie shop workers at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1915.

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**Jon** · Oct 9, 2022, 10:07 AM

Liberty ship builders. 1941.

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**mansworld** · Oct 14, 2022, 12:45 PM

The following summary is from the jacket of the book, Assault on the Liberty by James M. Ennes, Jr.; Random House, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-394-50512-3:In June 1967, jet aircraft and motor torpedo boats of Israel brutally assaulted an American naval vessel, the USS LIBERTY, in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack was preceded by more than six-hours of intense low-level surveillance by Israel photo-reconnaissance aircraft, which buzzed the intelligence ship thirteen times, sometimes flying as low as 200 feet directly overhead. The carefully orchestrated assault that followed was initiated by high-performance jet aircraft, and was followed up by slower and more maneuverable jets carrying napalm, and was finally turned over to lethal torpedo boats, which blasted a forty-foot hole in the ship's side.The attack lasted more than two hours-killing 34 Americans and wounding 171 others-and inflicted 821 rocket and machine-gun holes in the ship. And when the LIBERTY stubbornly remained afloat despite her damage, Israeli forces machine-gunned her life rafts and sent troop-carrying helicopters to finish the job. At this point, with Sixth Fleet rescue aircraft finally enroute, the government of Israel apologized and the attacking forces suddenly withdrew. Only then did the identity of the assailants become known.

**TrickieDickie** · Oct 14, 2022, 04:14 PM

I do not remember this incident we should have spanked them

**schuylergrace** · Oct 14, 2022, 07:31 PM

I remember hearing about this around the time it was all going on. It seems to me there was a relatively small blurb in the news, which grew larger over the next few years as word got out and folks started questioning what really happened. Personally, I think either Israel thought we were spying on them (which we were, along with spying on Egypt and other countries in the region), or they were trying to start an incident which we'd blame on Soviet-backed actors in the area to force us to enter the war they were waging against Egypt. There was no mistaking that ship, particularly by the people shooting at it, so I'm sure it wasn't an "accident" as the Israelis claimed. But there was as much covering up going on in the U.S. as there was overseas.