Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Thousands of feet of insulated conductor wire that go into a North American B-25 bomber are sorted by this woman employee in the electrical assembly department at Inglewood, California. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces 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 313.
Tags
california
los angeles county
inglewood
safety film negatives
lot 1986
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
b 25
bombers
north american b 25 bomber
mitchell
general doolittle raid
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
workers
library of congress
vendors
farmers
agriculture
Date
01/01/1942
Location
california
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain