drillpress

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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

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  • 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.

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    to me, "Silencio" means "do not talk to the operator."
  • Chuck Walla said:
    This guy's hearing is probably still pretty good. His coworkers less so.

An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, a

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  • Jason Claypool said:
    That's America!
  • Marshall Astor - Food Fetishist said:
    There's something almost dreamlike and unreal about this image.
  • Senorita Hollywood Vintage said:
    Oh my - whatta nice looking fella !
  • Jkadavoor (Jee) said:
    Nice. Hi, I'm an admin for a group called People love their Work, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • last page said:
    Great Photo of a Handsome , well built American. Wow, he is something to be Proud of.

Drill press operator, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. (LOC)

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