File:Arm detail, A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs (cropped).jpg
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English: A young woman 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. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: A young woman 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. |
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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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October 1942 date QS:P571,+1942-10-00T00:00:00Z/10 |
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Medium | 1 transparency : color. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print |
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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 | 22:51, 8 September 2009 |
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- Douglas Aircraft Company photographs by Alfred T. Palmer
- Color photographs from the Office of War Information
- Women at work in California
- Rosie the Riveter
- Three-quarter views of people
- Females looking down
- Women aircraft production workers in World War II from the United States
- Rivetting tools
- Women facing right