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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. 8b07945v

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Title: Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle complete assembly and fitting operations on the interior of a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. About half of the workers at the Boeing plant are women. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Creator(s): Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer

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United States. Office of War Information.

Date Created/Published: 1942 Dec.

Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-008461 (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b07945 (digital file from original neg.)

Call Number: LC-USE6- D-008461 [P&P] LOT 745 (corresponding photographic print)

Other Number: J 62733

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 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 33, frame 708.

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01/12/1942
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