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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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• Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 [i.e. C-47] bomber at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood [i.e. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach], Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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• 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
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• One of the girls of Vilter [Manufacturing] Co. filing small gun parts, Milwaukee, Wisc. One brother in Coast Guard, one going to Army. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Woman in Belgian Field (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2011-07-11
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