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English: Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, 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, 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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Alfred T. Palmer  (1906–1993)  wikidata:Q2895582
 
Alfred T. Palmer
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Date of birth/death 17 March 1906 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1993 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Jose Larkspur
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Public domain 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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