Women Douglas Aircraft Company plants1a35357v
A woman employee of Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California, being trained on the details of installing an aircraft engine. The engine is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp 14-cylinder radial engine of; it is being installed on a Douglas C-47 Skytrain twin-engined transport airplane, the military version of the Douglas DC-3 airliner. Original title: Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer Date Created/Published: 1942 Oct. Medium:.C. 20540 USA Notes: Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at
- Date
- 1942-10
- Photographer / author
- Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 933 × 735 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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