Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Two Negro women employees in North American Aviation's wing sub-assembly department at Inglewood, California, drill and rivet wing sections for fighter and bomber planes. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe
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Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Inglewood
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33.96168, -118.35313
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain