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A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model o
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 (
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- Date taken: 1939
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Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 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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B-25 bomber planes at the North American Aviation, Incorporated being hauled along an outdoor assembly line with an "International" tractor, Kansas City, Kansas (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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On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[sas] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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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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- 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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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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- 38,654 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to completion, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 38,572 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Drying oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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View of the B-25 final assembly line at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California, plant (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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, North American, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 33,270 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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