Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Manufacturing ammunition, Twin Cities Ordnance Plant, Arden Hill

The Twin Cities Ordnance Plant in Arden Hills opened in 1941 with the purpose of producing bullets and other types of ammunition. Women played an important role in filling jobs vacated by company employees-turned-fighting men. The woman in this photograph is working with cartridges.

Creator: Minneapolis Star Journal
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1941
Identifer: location HD4.2 p93

Manufacturing ammunition, Twin Cities Ordnance Plant, Arden Hill