• This is a safety feature so her hair will not get tangled. - hmschott
  • Nail polish & wedding ring - hmschott
  • Small injury - hmschott
  • Temporary worker tag! - jeter7997
  • Kodachrome Daylight Type - shobar
  • perfect Lucite (acrylic) nose by DuPont. Plastics were all the rage in WWII. - galessa's plastics
  • lights reflect from a camera - hi00116
  • a date time and number of the photo - hi00116
  • What is this? - Mr. Urda
  • the working surface was padded to prevent scratches. - galessa's plastics
  • This appears to be a padded bumper to hold the item in place - you'll note there are two others in the photo. - kerry1962
  • weirdo - alexandra.felder
  • She is married. - Kelly Kelli
  • Might be some soldiers wife, but you know she's everybody's pal! - BookChief

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-1

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Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

1942 Oct.

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
 Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 203.

Subjects:
 Douglas Aircraft Company
Airplane industry
Women--Employment
World War, 1939-1945
United States--California--Long Beach

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-39 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35360

Call Number: LC-USW36-212

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