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This huge hydropress is operated day and night by women employees. Thousands of sheet metal parts are formed daily on this press. Worked from four sides using same die. Beds with metal to be shaped is rolled into place under hydraulic press. 3000 tons total pressure

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a turret lathe under close supervision of a skilled machinist in a modern machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested ("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

This huge hydropress is operated day and night by women employees. Thousands of sheet metal parts are formed daily on this press. Worked from four sides using same die. Beds with metal to be shaped is rolled into place under hydraulic press. 3000 tons total pressure

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01/01/1942

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

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Inglewood, 33.96168, -118.35313

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Library of Congress

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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html