Mrs. Alene Green, of Deland, Fla., with two sons in the Army and one in the Navy, still felt she wasn't doing enough. So she enrolled in the Deland vocational school to learn how to put fabric on airplane wings.

Elderly women as well as young women find work in the aircraft industry. This North American employee assembles stringers in the sheet metal sub-assembly department Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer Date Created/Published: 1942 Oct. Medium:; 4 x 5 inches or smaller. Re

With the grade and dexterity of a master dressmaker, this attractive young woman fabricates "pup" tents for the expanding war army at the Langdon Tent & Awning Company.

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes for Uncle Sam's fighing flyers at a West Coast plant. Here, Mrs. Fern Evans, Pearl Harbor widow, works on a radio bracket for a bomber with a young mechanic. Mrs. Evans, who had no previous mechanical experience when she applied for

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, carries one of the greatest human and cargo

Young defense woman. This young woman, trained in a National Youth Administration (NYA) work center, is contributing to defense as the result of skill acquired on the government project. Scene from Women in Defense, Office of War Information (OWI) motion picture which Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote th

Women in industry. Flare gun production.

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are working on building forms used in the manufacture of sel

Women aircraft workers. Women man America's machines in a West Coast airplane factory, where the swing shift of drill press operators is composed almost entirely of women Creator(s): Bransby, David, photographer Related Names: United States. Office of War Information. Date Created/Published: 1942 Ma