Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base, supervises Charles Potter, a NYA trainee from Michigan, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks of training he will go into civil service. Should he be inducted or enlist in the armed service, he will be valuable to mechanized units of the Army or Navy.

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WWII, Female Riveter, Naval Air Base, 1942

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