LOC Title
Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo
LOC Contributor Names
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
LOC Created/Published
1942 Oct.
LOC Standardized Date
1942
LOC Subject Headings
Douglas Aircraft Company
- airplane industry
- Women--Employment
- World War, 1939-1945
- assembly-line methods
- United States--California--Long Beach
- California--Long Beach
- airplane industry
- Women--Employment
- World War, 1939-1945
- assembly-line methods
- United States--California--Long Beach
- California--Long Beach
LOC Notes
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
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- Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
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- General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
- Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
- Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179134215
EEC Creators
EEC Source Month
October
EEC Source Year
1942
EEC Format
EEC Type of Source
EEC Theme Topic
EEC Index Number
237
EEC Theme
EEC Topics