Myriads of lights at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company form pleasing star patterns in the shatterproof plexiglass windows of noses for A-20 attack bombers.

"Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach, Calif., plant. Women workers groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers."

Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach, Calif., plant HD-SN-99-02461

Long lines of a A-20 attack bombers roll ceaselessly, night and day, through the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, Calif.

Experienced assembly line workers of both sexes contribute to the production of A-20 attack bombers in the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, Calif.

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

Women become skilled shop technicians at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft who produces the B-17F, A-20 and C-47.

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.

Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber the "Flying Fortress" at the Long Beach, California plant of Douglas Aircraft Company.