Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This huge brake in the Inglewood, California, sheet metal department of North American Aviation, Incorporated, forms hundreds of metal parts daily for bombers and fighters. 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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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Inglewood, 33.96168, -118.35313
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain