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• Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a festival in May 1942, Southington, Conn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • 68,135 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • 6 comments
  • 78 favorites
  • 54,021 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Children stage a patriotic demonstration, Southington, Conn. (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 46 favorites
  • 46,330 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon (LOC)

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  • 30 favorites
  • 46,039 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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  • 31 favorites
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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
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Mechanical operator on boiler parts, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • 30 favorites
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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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• 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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• Vera Cruz -- Front door of Naval Academy bombarded by "CHESTER" & "PRAIRIE" (LOC)

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  • 3 comments
  • 9 favorites
  • 13,267 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2011-04-15
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• At Champigny -- giving wine to Algerian troops (LOC)

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  • 5 favorites
  • 7,518 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2011-07-29
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• Proving identity -- Near Diest (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2011-09-16
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