Ventura bombers production line
Lockheed Ventura bombers built for the Royal Air Force under conctruction at the Lockheed Vega division, Burbank, California (USA), in June 1942. Original caption: "Ventura bombers. When these birds of war are full fledged they will be assigned to chores in which Tokyo, Berlin, and Rome will have an active and painful interest. These planes in the jigs of a large Western aircraft plant are Ventura bombers in the making. Overhead cranes move the ships from station to station of the assembly line. Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California."
- Date
- 1942-06
- Photographer / author
- Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection ( ).
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 481 × 361 pixels
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