Female mechanics work on R-1830 of PBY at NAS Corpus Christi 1942
Women Civil Service workers (Bowen, a riveter, and Olsen, her supervisor) of the assembly and repair department work on the Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 Twin Wasp radial engine of a Consolidated PBY Catalina at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas (USA).
- Date
- 1942-08
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 4,463 × 3,071 pixels
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