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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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• Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 36 comments
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Washington, D.C. Field trips for the "flying nun" pre-flight class, including inspection tours of hangars at the Washington National Airport. Here, Sister Aquinas is explaining engine structure to her students (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1943
  • Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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• Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 10 comments
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  • 104,548 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 12 comments
  • 136 favorites
  • 85,902 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs man

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  • 48 favorites
  • 67,437 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 83 favorites
  • 59,131 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Marine lieutenant, pilot with the power towplane for the training gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • 43 favorites
  • 30,282 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Servicing [an] A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Marine lieutenant by the power plane which tows the training gliders at Page Field, Parris, Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Marine lieutenant with the power towing plane for the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • 10 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Marine lieutenant, pilot with the power towing plane for the gliders at Parris Island's Page Field, S.C. (LOC)

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  • 17 favorites
  • 26,842 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Frank Coffyn (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2010-06-11
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