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

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.

 

1 transparency : color.

 

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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Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp.fsac.1a03058

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03058

 

Call Number: LC-USW36-128

 

 

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