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• 1940s
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With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• bf53490 said:

  Its such a shame that these intelligent women did all this work during the war, but after the men came back it was as if they were second class citizens again. I wish there were more documentaries about this role women played in the war and in fact memorials as well recogizing their efforts.

• Eptih said:

  It might have had something to do with the fact that the men had been through absolute hell and at the very least deserved decent jobs.

• Dan K ™ said:

  Such clarity.

• jeff_kari said:

  thank for sharing

• Marcel van Hilten said:

  ..fascinating

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.

Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 [i.e. C-47] bomber at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood [i.e. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach], Calif. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 40 older comments, and then…
• docwatson1938 said:

  That would be a C47.

• Ari Braginsky said:

  Nice lighting.

• Jim Plumb said:

  what great lighting in this series of photos.

• perfgeek said:

  I agree with docwatson - that isn't the cockpit of a B-25, but looks rather like part of the cockpit of the DC-3/C-47.

• Brian Burger said:

  Have to agree it doesn't look like a B-25 - compare the window outlines here to the ones on the right-hand side of this picture further down the photostream.