Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a turret lathe under close supervision of a skilled machinist in a modern machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested ("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
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 41, frame 293.
Tags
california
los angeles county
inglewood
safety film negatives
lot 1986
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
plant
general doolittle raid
north american aviation
british raid
woman employee
turret lathe
machine shop
fighter plane
office of war information
farm security administration
industrial facilities
machine shops
united states history
factory
workers
library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
Location
california
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain