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Item
Title
D10545-3
Date(s)
- 1940-12 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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In December of 1940, Alvin Thorson was one of 140 men learning to operate welding machines in the basement of Hawthorne School, at the foot of McKinley Hill. The welding machines were kept busy 24 hours a day as men trained to become welders for the war effort at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co. The young Puyallup mechanic is wearing a welder's mask and holding the "stinger" of the welding machine. (T. Times 12/9/1940, pg. 1)
Thorson, Alvin; Welding; Hawthorne School (Tacoma); Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma;