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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A clerk in one of the Inglewood, California, stockrooms of North American Aviation, Incorporated, checks parts for a sub-assembly department. 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 indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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electrolimit gauge
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united states history
library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Library of Congress
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