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Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f
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- 6 comments
- 139 favorites
- 78,529 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under construction in a western aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. A front section of the plane shows in the background. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military pl
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- 6 comments
- 67 favorites
- 69,516 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service any day, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Agnes used to work in a dep[artmen]t store. Checking of gasoline hose of gasoline trailers before being turned over the Air Force (LOC)
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- 40 favorites
- 62,973 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 26 favorites
- 61,148 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. Working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 78 favorites
- 51,842 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 54 favorites
- 46,659 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end of the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 14 favorites
- 41,384 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Helen Ryan, age 41 (with cap), widow and used to work in a show factory, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service any day, brother in the army. [She] used to be a clerk in a dep[artmen]t
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- 2 comments
- 34 favorites
- 41,278 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 18 favorites
- 36,082 views
- Date taken: 1939
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[Servicing an A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 10 favorites
- 34,292 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 13 favorites
- 30,226 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine glider pilot in training at Page Field, watching take-offs, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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British kite balloon (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1915
- Date uploaded: 2016-08-12
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Adm. Twinings aeroplane gun (LOC)
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- 11 favorites
- 19,498 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Mt. Clemens flying field (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1915
- Date uploaded: 2015-10-19
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