A shipping department employee at the Inglewod, Calif., plant of North American Aviation drills holes in a shipping crate for a "Mustang" fighter for the Royal Air Force.

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A North American "Mustang" for the British Royal Air Force is disassembled prior to crating and shipping Physical description:; 4 x 5 inches or smaller. Notes: Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.; More informa

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., a woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.

An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which w

Man and a woman making an efficient operating on riveting at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company.

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Using the same drill press which once assembled piano parts, this employee of a Chicago firm now installs gears in the pneumatic motors of trainer planes. The factory has stopped piano production for the duration and now produces trainer-plane motors for Americ

Riveting a center wing section for a B-24E (Liberator) bomber in the horizontal position at Ford's big Willow Run plant.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., a woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.