Flashback to 1943: 75 years ago in Georgia

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World War II was raging in Europe. Back home, the war effort was a part of daily life for Georgians, too. Take a look back at a few photos that capture those days, 75 years ago in Georgia.

Louise Bennett makes parachutes on a high-speed machine that sews with six needles at once, in the Owen Osbone plant at Gainesville. September 5, 1943.

Credit: AJC file

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Credit: AJC file

The war effort included making parachutes, as the worker above is doing at a facility in Gainesville.

"High Hat" dance and party on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, January 21, 1943. Photo shoot commissioned by fashion and home-goods mail-order merchandizer, Chicago Mail Order Company, owned by Alden's. LBCE4-025c, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Credit: Lane Brothers Commercial Photogr

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Credit: Lane Brothers Commercial Photogr

Of course, when work is over, there was fun to be had in 1943, too, like this dance party on Auburn Avenue.