Workers assembling wing panels for Helldiver bomber, DeSoto Bomber Plant
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Description
View of workers assembling wing sections for Helldiver bomber aircraft at Chrysler Corporation's DeSoto Bomber Plant. Label on back: "From Desoto cars to Helldiver wing sections. Down the assembly lines that formerly spawned hundred of new DeSotos a day, big wing fixtures now move. These fixtures of rigid construction are specially designed to gain aircraft precision on a moving line. From Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc., Detroit, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "Conversion."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na032667
- Subject:
- Airplanes--Wings
- Helldiver (Dive bomber)
- Bombers--Design and construction
- Aircraft industry--Employees
- Chrysler Corporation. DeSoto Division
- Industrial mobilization
- 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, Conversion, 86:7
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.