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A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared 1a35282v

A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed as a medium bomber and as an escort plane

Production. B-25 bombers. A Wright Whirlwind engine ready for installation in a new B-25 medium bomber in a Western aircraft plant. The B-25 is driven by two of these 1700-horsepower engines which perform brilliantly at the plane's ceiling of 25,000 feet. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Calif

Production. B-25 bombers. A Wright Whirlwind engine ready for installation in a new B-25 medium bomber in a Western aircraft plant. The B-25 is driven by two of these 1700-horsepower engines which perform brilliantly at the plane's ceiling of 25,000 feet. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the right engine of a B-25 bomber, North American Aviation, Inc., [Inglewood], Calif. Forward of this wall will be mounted one of the two 1,700-horsepower Wright Whirlwind engines which carry the B-25 through performances up to Altitudes of 25,000 feet

Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the right engine of a B-25 bomber, North American Aviation, Inc., [Inglewood], Calif. Forward of this wall will be mounted one of the two 1,700-horsepower Wright Whirlwind engines which carry the B-25 through performances up to Altitudes of 25,000 feet

Production. B-25 bombers. Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the right engine of a B-25 bomber. Forward of this wall will be mounted one of the two 1700 horsepower Wright Whirlwind engines which carry the B-25 through brilliant performances up to altitudes of 25,000 feet. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of a Western aircraft plant. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed as a medium bomber and as an escort plane

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WWII color photographs. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs from the Library of Congress. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

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01/01/1939
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label_outline Explore Medium Bomber, North American Aviation Inc, Ww 2 In Color

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee at North American's Inglewood, California, plant, assembles control brackets for bomber and fighter planes. All parts are arranged conveniently in the semi-circle. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

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

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., a woman is in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane

Kansas City, Kansas. Workmen assembling parts of a plane at the North American Aviation Inc. plant

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Hillman Barge & Construction Company, Paul Thomas Boulevard, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background

Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

John Kelseh, blacksmith, at his forge in the blacksmith shop at the roundhouse, Rock Island R.R., Blue Island, Ill.

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north american aviation inc airplane industry assembly line methods world war bombers california inglewood transparencies color brace bomber line aircraft plant aircraft plant american aviation north american aviation inc plenty range medium medium bomber escort plane ww 2 in color american workers in color economic and social conditions workers worker kodachrome interior factory b 25 mitchell b 25 b 25 bomber united states history library of congress