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• Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass prod

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma, used to do office work. Removing paper from pilot's window(?), Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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• Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Naval Air Base, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Marine lieutenants, pilots, by the power tow-plane for the training gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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