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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f

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  • Allison Marchant said:
    Quite a different work experience from this one.
  • technogeo said:
    The final version is a big improvement!
  • loratamosiuniene said:
    I would call it A Happy War- serenity and luster. Angelic face paintig stars on the sky. Hope- maybe
  • Chuck Sloan said:
    I can identify with this. I painted Navy planes in Kingsville TX in the late 1960's. Squadron VT-22.
  • Ginormous Memory said:
    I'm surprised it is done by hand. The care she is using is amazing.

Maude Rose (Lores) Bonney, Queensland aviatrix, ca. 1935

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  • hoarder123 said:
    Lores Bonney was an active Qld aviator of the time. She would have been an inspiration for others.
  • Graham McKnight said:
    For what it's worth, the VH registration looks like VH-UHQ. Which takes me to these two links: www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austu/VH-UHQ.html. The aircraft was later re-registered as VH-AAQ - the story is here www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austa/VH-AAQ.html The ladies name is mentioned as a Miss Betty Faux. The majority of aircraft in Australia's early years were registered VH-U followed by two other letters.. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/56441499?searchTerm=betty faux
  • Sharyn Merkley said:
    This is Ivy May Pearce.
  • State Library of Queensland said:
    I would love to update our information to the State Library of Queensland One Search catalogue, with more relevant information. However I have three women mentioned for this photograph Maude Rose (Lores) Bonney, Ivy May Pearce and Miss Betty Faux. Can you please provide more information Graham and Sharyn as to why you believe this is Betty Faux or Ivy May Pearce.
  • State Library of Queensland said:
    Thank you for your help. The lady in this image has been identified as Pilot Ivy Pearce Hassard and our records will be updated.

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee (LOC)

  • reckel1 said:
    This insignia was not used after May 1942
  • Gerry Asher said:
    The insignia regs deleted the 'meatball' starting May '42, but that didn't necessarily mean the manufacturers automatically (and immediately) received the notification to change. I'm betting that '1943 Feb.' reference was when the transparency was filed with the LOC. The bigger puzzle to me is, What the heck is she painting on? It's not a Vengeance fuselage, it's some kind of fabric-covered wing. What was Vultee building under license at that time (she's wearing a Vultee patch on her shirt) that would have had fabric-covered wings?
  • Gerry Asher said:
    I think I just figured out the answer to my own question - most likely a Stinson/Vultee L-1 Vigilant wing panel - I believe you're looking at the top side of a left wing assembly.