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This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-1
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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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
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Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs man
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- Date taken: 1939
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Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Servicing an A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Servicing [an] A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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CHICAGO [plane], just landed 1924 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1924
- Date uploaded: 2022-09-02
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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Visitors on the observation platform. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1941
- Date uploaded: 2023-07-06
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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: An airliner taking on baggage and fuel. Washington, D.C. municipal airport] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1941
- Date uploaded: 2023-07-06
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Patrick, Smith, Arnold (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1900
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World Cruiser [airplane] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1900
- Date uploaded: 2022-06-03
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