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• Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the serv

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• English women planing shells (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1915
  • Date uploaded: 2016-01-08
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