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

"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."

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.

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.

An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer Date Created/Published: 1942 Oct. Medium:.

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

A Douglas A-20 attack bomber leaves the assembly line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant for transfer to the flight line and a test flight before delivery to the Army.

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.