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Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi, Texas. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base, and a school teacher before the war, is doing her part for victory along with her brother who is a flying instru
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- Date taken: 1939
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This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass prod
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Member[s] of the experimental staff at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, observe wind tunnel tests on an accurate scale model of the B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 bomber, used in Gener
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Dept. of the Naval Air Base, talking with one of the men, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Helene Dutrieu (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A sailor mechanic refueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working on the wing center section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Marine lieutenant by the power towing plane for the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Monument of Oscar Wilde (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Fitting the tail of a transport plane to the wing center section in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Marine lieutenant with the power towing plane for the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Marie Tailer (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Air pilots Cal. Rodgers, 1911 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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New Jersey convict road builders (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Mrs. Wing (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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