Bomb bay gasoline tanks for long flights of B-25 bombers await assembly in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., 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 was fi
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- Date
- 1942-10
- Photographer / author
- Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 9,093 × 7,326 pixels
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"Bomb bay gasoline tanks for long flights of B-25 bombers await assembly in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., 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 was fi" (1942-10). Palmer, Alfred T., photographer. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bomb_bay_gasoline_tanks_for_long_flights_of_B-25_bombers_await_assembly_in_the_plant_of_North_American_Aviation,_Inc.,_Inglewood,_Calif._This_plant_produces_the_battle-tested_B-25_(%22Billy_LCCN2017878527.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 117057.
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