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Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed as a medium bomber and a
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- Date taken: 1939
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Aviation cadet in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Workers on the Liberator Bombers, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., [Fort Worth, Texas] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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B-25 bombers on the outdoor assembly line at North American Aviation, Incorporated, almost ready for their first test flight, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sunset silhouette of flying fortress, Langley Field, Va. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Av. Cadet Thanas at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A mating operation on a transport plane just before it comes to the pre-assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mechanical operator on boiler parts, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Navy N2S primary land planes at the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Ens[ign] Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude (LOC
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- Date taken: 1939
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Cadet L. Deitz at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine in North American's sheet metal department, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 18 favorites
- 42,165 views
- Date taken: 1939
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He's like to use that gun on the Axis. After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 41,680 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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One of America's new warships of the air, a mighty YB-17 bomber, is pulled up at a bombardment squadron hangar, Langley Field, Va. It is all set to taxi out to a runway and take off (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Naval Air Base, Texas (LOC)
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- 41,458 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Bomb bay gasoline tanks for long flights of B-25 bombers await assembly in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and th
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- 27 favorites
- 41,431 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Aviation cadets at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 41,384 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Cadet L. Deitz(?) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 41,360 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 41,278 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 41,039 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice shooting with a 30-calibre Browning machine gun, Fort Knox, Ky. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work (LOC)
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- 40,989 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Aviation cadets in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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This husky member of a construction crew building a new 33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox is performing an important war service, Ft. Knox, Ky. Thousands of soldiers are in training there, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisv
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- Date taken: 1939
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Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. This plant produced the B-25 bomber (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Another North American B-25 bomber rolls off the final assembly line to join other ships on the outdoor assembly line, N[orth] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Ensign Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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M-4 tank line, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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M-3 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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New B-25 bombers lined up for final inspection and tests at the flying field of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. It performs at the 25,000-foot ceiling (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (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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A young soldier of the armored forces holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism. Infantryman with halftrack (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Crewman of an M-3 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sailor mechanic inspecting a PBY plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87
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- Date taken: 1939
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Aviation cadet at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Employees on the "Sunshine" assembly line at North American's plant put the finishing touches on another B-25 bomber, Inglewood, Calif. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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