Sabino Canyon, Arizona by Mark McGinnis
San Antonio, TX by Holly Swick via Flickr:
Taken with the RETO Ultra Wide and Slim camera
Fuji Superia 200 film
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
by The Library of Congress via Flickr:
Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
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 action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions
1942 Oct.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide … Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 388.
Subjects:
Douglas Aircraft Company
Airplane industry
Women–Employment
World War, 1939-1945
Bombers
Assembly-line methods
United States–California–Long Beach
Format: Transparencies–Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-39 (DLC) 93845501
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