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• Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself i

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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• Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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• Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base, supervises Chas. Potter, a NYA trainee from Michigan, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks of training he will go into civil service. Should he be inducted or

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• Plane shop, College Point (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1915
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• Curtiss Flying Boat, Model 12 (LOC)

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• Veneering body of plane (LOC)

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• Lining aeroplane [airplane] bodies, College Point (LOC)

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• Putting U.S. Emblem on plane (LOC)

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• Barling bomber (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1920
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• Aeroplane [airplane] shop (LOC)

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• Assembling [plane] wings (LOC)

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• Assembling plane wings (LOC)

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• Bringing plane out for test (LOC)

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• W.H. Barling, Gen. Wm. Mitchell, Maj. Martin, Maj. A.S. Robins, Mr. Carisi, Lieut. Dickman, Lieut. Blackburn (LOC)

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• Making plane wings (LOC)

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• Making plane wings (LOC)

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• Making plane wings (LOC)

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• Aeroplane [airplane] shop, College Point (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1915
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• Putting propeller on plane (LOC)

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• Installing aeroplane [airplane] engine (LOC)

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• Tacking linen on wings [of plane] (LOC)

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• Barling bomber (LOC)

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