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Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Mary Miller, operator of a router at the Boeing plant in Seattle, drills holes in a part for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. The Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes, has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere

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Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Mary Miller, operator of a router at the Boeing plant in Seattle, drills holes in a part for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. The Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes, has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere

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Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Location

Seattle, 47.60383, -122.33006

Google Map of 47.6038321, -122.3300624

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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