Painters at the Bethlehem-Fairchild Shipyard

This is a truckload of painters at the Bethlehem-Fairchild Shipyard taken at the height of World War II.

painters at the Bethlehem-Fairchild shipyard in May 1943

Source: Library of Congress

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