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Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)

Hollem, Howard R.,, photographer.

 

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

 

[between 1941 and 1945]

 

1 transparency : color.

 

Notes:

Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

 

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945

Airplane industry

Transport planes

United States--Michigan--Willow Run

 

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 Lot 12002 (DLC) 93845501

 

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a55004

 

Call Number: LC-USW36-472 B

 

 

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Taken circa 1939