Woman working in airplane manufacture, 1942 Oct
Item — Box: 33, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSC-385- Series I- Sub-Series D- Item 100.10218
Photograph of woman working in airplane manufacture
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
- Creation: 1942 Oct
Creator
- United States. Office of War Information. (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Access is open to all researchers, unless otherwise specified.
Extent
1 Photographic Prints ; 8x10
Language of Materials
From the Sub-Series: English
General
Old Folder Title - PRG3-4-5, Navy General, Ships: Unidentified
Genre / Form
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Naval War College Archives Repository