Women workers assembling wing flaps for B-29 Superfortress, Fisher Body Division
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Description
View of women workers assembling wing flaps for the B-29 Superfortress bomber at the Fisher Body Division plant in Cleveland, Ohio. Label on back: "Here women workers are assembling wing flaps for the B-29, the Army Air Forces new Superfortress at Fisher Body Cleveland Aircraft plant no. 2. Note the giant fixtures on which the wing flaps are mounted. From: W.S. McLean, Fisher Body Division, General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. Note editor: This caption and photo has been reviewed by the War Department." Stamped on back: "Fisher Body Photographic, General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Order duplicates of this print by no." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040310
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- B-29 (Bomber)--Design and construction
- General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division
- Airplanes--Wings
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Women workers, 90:9
- Negative Number:
- 16003-399
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.