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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Preparing an experimental scale model of the B-25 bomber for the wind tunnel tests in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. The model maker is adjusting the empennage to its correct position. 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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Preparing an experimental ...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. The empennage section of a new consolidated transport plane is lowered for installation in the assembly line of a big Western aircraft plant, at which B-24 bombers are also made. This new transport carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. The empennage section of...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Setting the empennage of a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber in place on one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Setting the empen...

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Production. B-25 bombers. Tires, wing sections and empennage assemblies for B-25 bombers, ready for the assembly lines of a Western aircraft plant. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1700- mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Tires, wing sections and empennage assemblie...

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