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[Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress, Mt. Rainier]

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model o

from The Library of Congress

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • bunæn said:
    Most likely these aircraft workers were over the age of 18 when the photos were taken. That being the case, it would be more accurate to refer to each of them as a woman rather than as a girl.
  • caffeinatedliby said:
    I'd bet a latte that the titles are taken word-for-word from the captions each photo was assigned at the time it was taken (or at the very least, when they were processed into the collection at the LoC). I doubt it'll come as a newsflash to anyone that things were a bit different in 1942 than they are in 2008...
  • bunæn said:
    Doh! Of course, you're right!
  • DanaLoesch said:
    A real life Rosie the Riveter.
  • Pat Strong said:
    The photographer is amazing... each shot is composed like a Vermeer There is that same sense of concentrated purpose, although its clearly very posed. Just lovely.

AL-32 Hatchard Album Photo_00296

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