Author: Margie Bedell-Burke

Aircraft Workers 

Aviation Worker Touches Up Bomber Insignia

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments army air forces, aviation worker, civilian worker, dive bomber, Vultee Aircraft, World War II

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side

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Aircraft Workers 

Aviation Worker Assembles B-25 Bomber Switch Boxes

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments assembly plant, aviation worker, b-25 bomber, civilian worker, North American Aviation

World War II aviation worker assembles switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Inc.’s Inglewood,

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Aircraft Workers 

Aviation Workers Assemble P-51 Wing Section

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments assembly plant, aviation plant, aviation workers, civilian workers, fighter plane, P-51

Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane. October

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Other War Workers 

Women War Workers Painting Factory Equipment

January 19, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian workers, factory workers, women war workers

Women war workers painting factory equipment during World War II. 1942. Photo size: 2304 × 3000 Photo source: Library of

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Railroad Workers 

Women Railroad Workers on Lunch Break

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and North Western Railroad, civilian workers, railroad workers, women workers, wwii jobs

Women railroad workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room at the Chicago and North

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Railroad Workers 

Women Wipers at Chicago and Northwestern Railroad

January 19, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and North Western Railroad, civilian workers, locomotive, railroad workers, roundhouse

Marcella Hart and Elibia Siematter, women wipers at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, cleaning one of

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Railroad Workers 

Women Railroad Workers at the Roundhouse

January 19, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and North Western Railroad, civilian workers, iowa, locomotive, railroad workers, roundhouse

Women wipers employed at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, cleaning one of the giant “H” class

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Railroad Workers 

Women Railroad Workers Clean Giant Locomotive

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and North Western Railroad, civilian workers, locomotive, railroad workers

Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers, women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, clean one of the

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Aircraft Workers 

Woman Trains to Become Mechanic in Corpus Christi

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments apprenticeship program, assembly plant, civil service, civilian workers, corpus christi, naval air base, NYA trainee

A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, is one of many women taking NYA

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Aircraft Workers 

Civil Service Worker Paints Insignia on Navy Plane Wings

January 19, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft repair, civil service, civilian worker, corpus christi, painting

Women from all fields have joined the production army. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air

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