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WWII Aircraft Assembly
October 1942. American mothers and sisters, like these
women at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California
give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the
front.
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March 1943. Yardmaster at Amarillo, Texas rail yard.
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February 1943. Lucille Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife husband going into
the service. Working at the Heil and Co. factory in Milwaukee on
blackout lamps to be used on Air Force gasoline trailers.
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October 1942. Glen view, Illinois. Transfusion bottles containing
intravenous solution are given final inspection by Grace Kruger, one of
many women employees at Baxter Laboratories. When her brother left
Baxter to join the Merchant Marine, Miss Kruger, a former life insurance
clerk, took his place.
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October 1942. Riveter at work on a bomber at the
Consolidated Aircraft factory in Fort Worth, Texas.
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October 1942. Thousands of North American Aviation employees at
Inglewood, California look skyward as the bomber and fighter planes they
helped build perform overhead during a lunch period air show. 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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August 1942. Corpus Christi, Texas. After seven years
in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at
the Naval Air Base.
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August 1942. Mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works on a
Wright Whirlwind motor in the Corpus Christi, Texas Naval Air Base
assembly and repairs shop.
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August 1942 Corpus Christi, Texas. Working inside the
nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy
planes. As a National Youth Administration trainee at the Naval Air
Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks he will go
into civil service as a sheet metal worker.
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