Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Bars of Kirksite metal, ready to be placed in the melting pot for use in dies, stand outside the foundry at the Inglewood, California, foundry of North American Aviation, Incorporated. Dies of this metal are used in forming sheet metal parts of war planes for the United Nations. 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
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 32, frame 157.
Tags
california
los angeles county
inglewood
safety film negatives
lot 1986
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
foundry
general doolittle raid
north american aviation
war planes
fighter plane
british raid
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
workers
library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
Location
california
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain