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An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Flyer31 said:
    The lady is DRILLING not riviting. This looks like the decking for something other than the A-20.
  • greens n cornbread said:
    looks like she's in the wing behind the engine mount (nacelle)
  • bad_idea_dinosaur said:
    I believe the process of riveting requires one drill a hole first.
  • Kary Nieuwenhuis said:
    Whats more important? Drilling? Riveting? or brown shoes, blue socks and a maroon pants.
  • james gallagher said:
    definitely the hair net, but I was really pulling for the shoes. gives a very clear sense of scope and scale of the operation, ....those drills were not like tools we have today. I am struck.

Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane (LOC)

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  • emddudley said:
    Should she really be holding the chuck? Or does the drill not have a chuck?
  • Cajun Metal said:
    not if it's rotating, I'm sure. She's probably just aligning the bit with the surface
  • Eight Food said:
    All of the photos of the women are so staged. Looking pretty rather than actually working. Regulations must've dictated their hair was up and out of the way of the machinery and you wouldn't waste expensive red lipstick just to go to work or be wearing blusher. So patronising and of course unfair, as they were paid half of what the male workers were paid.

Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • cougarnfw said:
    Excellent posed picture..hokey though because the rivets are already driven, and, more importantly, there always had to be a "bucker" holding a bucking bar tool which caused the other end of the rivet to expand. If he were really driving a rivet by himself, his left hand would have to be holding the bucking bar on the other side of the skin/rib. Neal
  • Ram! said:
    love this colors!