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Photograph of woman working in airplane manufacture
Digital Record
Identifier: MSC385_33_05_10218
Dates:
1942 Oct
Found in:
Naval War College Archives
Woman working in airplane manufacture, 1942 Oct
Item — Box: 33, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSC-385- Series I- Sub-Series D- Item 100.10218
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Women work side by side with men in the engineering department of North American Aviation, Inc. at Inglewood, Calif. The young woman pictured above traces complicated drawings of the thousands of parts that go into a modern fighting plane. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe."
Dates:
1942 Oct