Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (October 1942)
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Painting Aircraft
Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. (August 1942)
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Building Bombers
Two women work on a bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.
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A Machinist Hard at Work
This woman machinist makes an adjustment at the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.
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Rosie the Riveter
A black woman working at a bomber plant (Tennessee in 1943)
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Working on a Aircraft Wing
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (October 1942)
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Finishing the Plastic Nose of a Bomber
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. (October 1942)
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A Woman Rivets an Airplane Wing
Here, a woman rivets an airplane wing at a munitions factory.
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Teamwork Gets the Job Done
A male and a female riveter work side by side at a factory in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1942.
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Woman Inspecting Bullets
Fee Perez inspects .30 caliber rifle and machine gun bullets at Remington Arms Company’s Bridgeport, Connecticut, plant alongside a photo of her husband, Melburn, who is serving overseas.
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Female Riveters at an Aircraft Factory
Members of a riveting team at an aircraft factory use rivet guns and bucking bars to work on a basis trainer plane wing center section.
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Factory Worker in England
Women went to work on both sides of the Atlantic. This picture, taken in England, shows women working in a munitions factory.
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Pearl Harbor Widows at Work
Two women whose husbands were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack work in a factory in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Working on Aircraft
An aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California.
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