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• Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in acti

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the right engine of a B-25 bomber, North American Aviation, Inc., [Inglewood], Calif. Forward of this wall will be mounted one of the two 1,700-horsepower Wright Whirlwind engines which carry

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine. The hangar of Coastal Patrol #20 (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Astor Cup Race -- mechanics (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2013-03-22
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• Lindley / Christensen / North (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1915
  • Date uploaded: 2016-02-12
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