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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee of North American Aviation's Inglewood, California, plant, assembles the wing flap mechanism for a B-25 bomber. 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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