Thousands of North American employees came through those gates at the Inglewood, Calif., plant each day. Employees must display their badges and identification cards before admittance.

Men and women employees on the "swing shift" of North American's Inglewood, Calif., aircraft plant enjoy their lunch periods.

Niagara Falls, New York. All workers must show their badges and insides of their lunch boxes and packages to the guards at the gate when they enter and leave the Bell Aircraft plant

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Mrs. Lewis, women's counselor at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, discusses a problem with an employee. Women employees are free to consult Mrs. Lewis anytime. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber

Women take over the operation of some of the heaviest machine tools at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation, Inc. Day and night, shifts of girl employees use this huge hydraulic press to form thousands of sheet metal parts for United Nations war planes.

A-36A production Inglewood Oct 1942

Varied programs are presented at North American's Inglewood, Calif., plant during lunch periods. Here thousands watch a boxing match between two employees.

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. A good day's work done, employees of a large Midwest supercharger plant line up to punch their timecards. With women comprising 80 percent of its workers, its nothing unusual to find an all-female contingent like this one at the plant. Allis Manufacture Comp

A clerk in one of the Inglewood, Calif., stock rooms of North American Aviation Inc., checks parts for a sub-assembly department.