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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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• Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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
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• Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. Ralph Angar, instructor, explains propeller characteristics to student[s] in the aeronautics class (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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• Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., checking to see if the proper numbers of parts were received and placed in the proper bin, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in Ge

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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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• 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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