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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee operates a turret lathe in the machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. She handles the machine as skillfully as a man. This plant produces the battle-tested ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, us
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Credit lineProduction. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee operates a turret lathe in the machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. She handles the. 1942-01-01. Palmer, Alfred T., United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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