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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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  • 102,957 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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• An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, a

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
  • 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
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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
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• Haynes Repair Shop, Wenatchee Avenue, Wenatchee, Washington (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 2003
  • Date uploaded: 2019-02-15
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