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Winning the war from the clouds / photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland, staff photographer for Leslie's.

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Five images relating to the air war in France during World War I. Images show an American "Liberty plane" flying, pieces of airplanes that have crashed being shipped back to an assembly station for reuse, French women working at an airplane assembly plant sewing sleeves for covering the skeletons of rebuilt aircraft, flyers training at target practice, and three men cranking the engine of an airplane.

Photomechanical reproductions of photographs.

Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the great war. New York City : Leslie-Judge Company, c1919, p. [120]. Originally published, Sept. 28, 1918, p. 413.

Another copy filed under: D527.F65 1920.

Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1981:339, container 14.

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world war air operations women employment airplanes american fighter pilots air warfare war work factories halftone photomechanical prints periodical illustrations baillet en france france war clouds helen johns kirtland helen johns kirtland staff photographer staff photographer leslie ww1 world war i wwi ultra high resolution high resolution airplane aircraft french photographers library of congress vintage ads
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01/01/1919
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Kirtland, Helen Johns, photographer
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world war air operations women employment airplanes american fighter pilots air warfare war work factories halftone photomechanical prints periodical illustrations baillet en france france war clouds helen johns kirtland helen johns kirtland staff photographer staff photographer leslie ww1 world war i wwi ultra high resolution high resolution airplane aircraft french photographers library of congress vintage ads