Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She’s one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. 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. 203.
Subjects:
Douglas Aircraft Company
Airplane industry
Women–Employment
World War, 1939-1945
United States–California–Long Beach
Format: Transparencies–Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
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Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-39 (DLC) 93845501
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Call Number: LC-USW36-212