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70 The Washington Navy Yard yard. By the end of 1944 the figure had risen to 26,000, the wartime peak. 44 Many of these employees were women, tens of thousands of whom went to work at defense plants across the nation. The women at the Washington Navy Yard, like the men, had to endure long hours of labor in the routinely hot or cold, noisy, and dirty Gun factory employees work metal into shape for one of the weapons the U.S. Navy will use in World War II. industrial facilities. The women did not share equally in pay and other compensation. The takehome pay for some women was $23 a week while some skilled men received $22 a day! One former female worker observed that the navy yard women
Ordnance Nerve Center for a Global Conflict 71 Above. Work is in full swing at the breech mechanism shop (Building 76) during the war. Right. A 3-inch .50-caliber, rapid-fire, twinmount antiaircraft gun after assembly at the gun factory. These weapons were essential to the fleet’s defense against Japanese kamikaze attacks in the Pacific.
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