aircraft mechanic

Navy WAVES 

Navy WAVE Inspects a Grumman Wildcat Engine

December 3, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments african american, aircraft engine, aircraft mechanic, Bronx, engine, Grumman, new york, WAVES mechanics

Inspecting a Grumman Wildcat engine on display at the U.S. Naval Training School (WR) Bronx, NY, where she is a

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Army WACs 

WAC Working on Wing of a B-17 Bomber at Tyndall Field

October 28, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments access port, aircraft mechanic, army wac, B-17 bomber, Florida, Tyndall Field

Army WAC Dorothy Bumstead of Beaumont, Texas, reaches into the access port of a B-17 bomber wing she’s working on

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Army WACs 

WAC Private Works on B-17 Aircraft Wing

October 28, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments access port, aircraft mechanic, B-17 bomber, Florida, Tyndall Field, wrench

WAC aircraft mechanic Private Dorothy Bumstead of Beaumont, Texas, looks out from the access port on the bottom of a

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Army WACs 

WAC Aircraft Mechanic Hanging From B-17 Wing

October 28, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft mechanic, airplane wing, B-17 bomber, Florida, Tyndall Field, WAC private

World War II WAC aircraft mechanic Private Dorothy Bumstead of Beaumont, Texas, hangs from underneath the wing of a B-17

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Army WACs 

WAC Aircraft Mechanic Poses With B-17 at Tyndall Field

October 28, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft mechanic, airfield, B-17, Florida, Tyndall Field

World War II WAC aircraft mechanic Private Dorothy Bumstead of Beaumont, Texas, poses with a B-17 at Tyndall Field in

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Navy WAVES 

Aviation Machinist’s Mate Repairing Naval Aircraft

October 10, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft engine, aircraft mechanic, Aviation Machinist's Mate, Grumman, naval air station, Pratt & Whitney, Seattle, Washington

Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Barbara Warfield, USNR(W), working on an aircraft at Naval Air Station, Seattle, Washington, 28 September

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Navy WAVES 

WAVES Aircraft Mechanics Work on Port Outboard Engine

September 13, 2017September 13, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft engine, aircraft mechanic, California, naval air station, Naval Air Transport Service, Oakland, Pratt & Whitney

WAVES aircraft mechanics working on the port outboard engine (a Pratt & Whitney R-2000) of a Naval Air Transport Service

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Aircraft Workers 

Woman at Work on Motor at Douglas Aircraft

January 25, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft mechanic, aircraft worker, airplane mechanic, airplane motor, civilian worker, douglas aircraft company, Long Beach, war work

Woman at work on airplane motor at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California. October 1942. Photo size:

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Aircraft Workers 

Aircraft Mechanic Builds Emplanage Section on Cargo Plane

January 21, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft mechanic, aircraft worker, aviation plant, bomber, cargo plane, civilian worker, Consolidated Aircraft, transport plane

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on

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Aircraft Workers 

NYA Mechanic Trainee Rivets Aircraft Parts

January 20, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft mechanic, assembly plant, civilian worker training, corpus christi, job training, mechanic training, naval air base, NYA trainee

Oyida Peaks riveting aircraft parts as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic in the Assembly and Repair

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