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  • precious amount said:
    Beautiful lacing work.

Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") as

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  • Flyer31 said:
    This is the front end of a C-47. The woman has inserted the rivit and is controlling the rivit gun. The man is holding a "T" bucking bar against the end of the rivit so it will flare and draw the aluminum sheets together. Styaged, but nice.
  • Eric Hunt said:
    The lighting is incredible. Really good stuff.
  • Chris Rudge said:
    Great lighting to highlight just the subject closely.. But I recall from other shots of the era, that this was how it was done
  • Bill Hammond said:
    I didn't know there was transparency film in 1942. I agree with ChrisRudge and Eric in SF. This is great lighting. I had one flight in a C47. Was this the one?
  • Eric Hunt said:
    Kodachrome came out in 1935. There were earlier, larger format color reversal films prior to Kodachrome.

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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  • 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.