Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal plane parts are formed daily in the drop hammer department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. Hemp rope and the rubber in the mold on the press are used to snub and control the impact of the hammer. 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 174.
Tags
california
los angeles county
inglewood
safety film negatives
lot 1986
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
drop hammer department
general doolittle raid
plane parts
fighter plane
north american aviation
british raid
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
library of congress
vendors
farmers
agriculture
Date
01/01/1942
Location
california
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain