A plaster cast for plexiglass for turret on PV-1 is scraped smooth by a workman at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, Calif.

Checking finished PV-1 at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, Calif. Workmen spin propeller.

Inside the Douglas aircraft plant at El Segundo, Cal. Women riveters working on a wing panel of an SBD.

Man and women joining in producing a vital military aircraft at the big Douglas plant in Long Beach, Calif.

Ventura bombers production line

Sgt. J.S. Wilson, USA, painting a design of prow of a bomber based at Eniwetok.

Construction of aircraft at the Glenn L. Martin plant at Baltimore, MD. Fuselages, just out of the assembly jigs are on these special stands, to be given a water test. Instead of being placed in water, the water is placed in the hulls and the inspection made from the outside.

Inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company where they check all assembly work minutely to assure that dependable planes will go to our men at the front.

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Hand trades are important in the building of wooden boats for the Navy. This man working with a chisel on a beam of a motor torpedo boat in a Southern shipyard performs an essential war task. Higgins Industries Creator(s): Hollem, Howard R., photographer Rel