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Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, California.
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Virginia Davis rivets parts of an aircraft, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc, a woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, California.
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Operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee.
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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, California.
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A young riveting machine operator works at the Douglas Aircraft Company.
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Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base, paints the American insignia on repaired Navy plane wings.
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A war production worker at the Vilter Manufacturing Company is shown filing small parts.
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Woman working on a motor at the Douglas Aircraft Company.
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Inspectors check and inspect cargo transport inner wings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company.
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