Aircraft Workers

Aircraft Workers 

Women Working on B-17F Bomber at Douglas Aircraft Company

January 18, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft factory, assembly plant, aviation workers, b-17f bomber, civilian workers, douglas aircraft company, fuselage

Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company,

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Top-Notch Mechanic Rebuilds Airplane Engines

October 3, 2016March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft factory, airplane mechanic, civilian worker, licensed pilot, Mary Josephine Farley, WWII WASPs

A top-notch mechanic, 20-year-old Mary Josephine Farley expertly rebuilds airplane engines in 1941. A licensed pilot who had already made

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Women Operate Machinery at North American Aviation

October 3, 2016March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments assembly plant, aviation plant, civilian workers, machinery, rosie the riveter, sheet metal workers

Women take over the operation of some of the heaviest machine tools at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American

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Pearl Harbor Widows Working in Corpus Christi

October 1, 2016March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments assembly plant, civilian workers, corpus christi, pearl harbor widows, texas

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance. Mrs. Virginia Young (right),

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Civilian Worker Assembles B-25 Motor Cowling

October 1, 2016March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft worker, assembly plant, b-25 bomber, civilian worker

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of

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Women Working in Airplane Factory

September 30, 2016February 26, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft workers, airplane factory, civilian workers, drill press operators, swing shift, war work

Women “man” America’s machines in a west coast airplane factory, where the swing shift of drill press operators is composed

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