File:A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better LCCN2017878904.tif
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DescriptionA girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better LCCN2017878904.tif |
English: Title: A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber 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
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Author | Palmer, Alfred T., photographer | ||
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Collection InfoField | Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs | ||
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Part of InfoField | farm security administration/office of war information color photographs · prints and photographs division | ||
Subject InfoField | airplane industry · women · employment · world war · assembly-line methods · drilling · united states · california · long beach · transparencies · color | ||
Location InfoField | california | ||
Place InfoField | California--Long Beach | ||
Genre InfoField | Transparencies--Color |
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This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright. |
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File change date and time | 14:25, 29 October 2003 |