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This flag is one of five E-flags ("E" for exceptional performance) awarded to Greenfield Tap & Die (GTD) Corporation for industrial efficiency during World War II (WWII). Only 206 companies, out of 4,283 top-flight war production facilities (which represented only 5% of the total industrial plants engaged in war production) were awarded five flags. The company was the largest maker of gages, taps, and dies in the world, in a War Department-financed million dollar state-of-the-art plant in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Three shifts worked around the clock seven days a week producing these measuring devices that insured an accurate fit for all parts produced anywhere in the country. Greenfield was important enough in the war effort to be protected by an anti-aircraft battery, able to shoot down German bombers.

 

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E-flag of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for exemplary performance in WWII

creator   Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation
date   1942
location   Greenfield, Massachusetts
height   52.0"
width   100.0"
process/materials   linen, cotton
item type   Art/Decorative Arts - Textiles
accession #   #M.47


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Go and No-Go Thread and Plug Gages made by Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation during WWII

Framed photograph of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation operator during WWII

"GTD Makes John Grant's Invention Known Around World" article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper

"America's Entire Strength Is Now Concentrated on Our War Effort" ad for GTD from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper


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