Author: Margie Bedell-Burke

Railroad Workers 

Dorothy Lucke is Wiper at Iowa Railroad Roundhouse

January 22, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, civilian workers, railroad worker, roundhouse, war worker, wiper

Mrs. Dorothy Lucke is employed as a wiper at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa. April 1943.

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Other War Workers 

Inspector Checks Howitzer Cutter for Burrs

January 22, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments 105mm Howitzer, army mom, Chain Belt Company, civilian worker, gist inspector, war worker

Gist inspector Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of

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Other War Workers 

Army Wife Checks Trailer Tires for Heil and Company

January 22, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments army wife, civilian workers, gasoline trailer, Heil and Company, war workers

War production workers at the Heil Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, make gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps.

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Other War Workers 

Women War Workers Check Over Gasoline Trailers

January 22, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian workers, gasoline trailer, Heil and Company, war workers

Helen Ryan (with cap) and Agnes Cliemka unmasking and checking parts of the gasoline trailers that will be turned over

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Other War Workers 

Heil Company Worker Spray Paints Small Parts

January 21, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian worker, family farm, gasoline trailer, Heil and Company, war production worker

Elizabeth Little is one of many war production workers at the Heil Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, making gasoline trailer tanks

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Other War Workers 

Woman Works on Black-Out Lamps for Gas Trailers

January 21, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian worker, gasoline trailer, Heil and Company, housewife, war production worker

Former housewife Lucile Mazurek, aged 29 and with a husband going into the service, works on black-out lamps to be

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Other War Workers 

Widow is Only Woman Welder at War Production Plant

January 21, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian worker, Heil and Company, Milwaukee, war worker, welder, widow

A widow and mother of one child, 32-year-old Enola O’Connell is the only woman welder at the Heil and Company

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Other War Workers 

Woman War Worker Checks Gasoline Trailer Hoses

January 21, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian worker, gasoline trailer, Heil and Company, war jobs, woman war worker

With a husband who may be going into the service any day, 23-year-old Agnes Cliemka, a former department store employee,

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Other War Workers 

War Production Worker Checks M7 Gun With Gage

January 21, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian worker, gun parts, M7 gun, manufacturing plant, Vilter Company, war production worker

Ex-stage orchestra musician turned war production worker, whose two brothers and husband are in the service, checks an M7 gun

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Other War Workers 

War Production Worker at Vilter Manufacturing Company

January 21, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian worker, gun parts, housewife, manufacturing plant, Vilter Company, war production worker

This 49-year-old former housewife is now a war production worker doing bench work on small gun parts at the Vilter

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