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this is a wonderful shot! and the colors- were they restored?

I was trying to think of a tag that said something like "beginning of women's liberation movement" but more concise- ideas?

Wow, amazing photo.

That's really gorgeous!

Great shot, the details are amazing.

Excellent photo! Love the colors. It blows my mind how this photo survived with great colors! I enjoy the color match of her lipstick and the pen in her hand. I also like the history..how people dressed back then and actually "dolled" up for work like this woman in the 40's.

That's the sole Boeing XB-38 version of the Fortress powered by liquid cooled Allison V-1710 engines (as used in the P-38)...40 mph faster than B-17 but lower ceiling....crashed after crew bailed out during engine fire en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_XB-38_Flying_Fortress

My father knew someone who was aircrew on the XB-38. The story he told me was that the AAF provided the B-17 to Lockheed as a test bed for installing Allison V-1710 engines on the B-17. The hope was that the Allison engines would give the B-17 better high altitude performance than the Wright R-1820 engines. The V-1710 engines were the same as those used on the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. During a test flight the crankshaft in one of the engines seized and the engine caught fire. The crew abandoned the aircraft. The crew was made up of a mixture of Lockheed employees and AAF crewmen. The AAF crew was equipped with new nylon parachutes whereas the Lockheed crew had older silk parachutes. The silk parachutes all failed on opening and the entire Lockheed crew died. The AAF crew survived. The program was never continued because it was decided the V-1710 engines were more badly needed on P-38 Lightnings.