Women workers assembling tail cabins for B-29 Superfortress bombers, Hudson Motor Car Company
View of women assembling pressurized tail cabins for B-29 Superfortress bombers at the Hudson Motor Company factory in Detroit. Label on back: "Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich. Approved for immediate release by John T. Parker, Jr., Major, C.A.C., War Department, Washington, D.C. Tail cabins for stinging Japs. Tail-gunners on the new Boeing B-29 Superfortress are protected by heavy armor and thick bullet-proof glass. Pictured on a busy Hudson Motor Car Co. production line are pressurized tail cabins, one of the three large fuselage sections being mass produced in the plant which turns out automobiles in days of peace. Pressurized cabins enable the B-29 crews to dispense with oxygen masks most of the time during flights. Hudson also is building the outer wings. The total assignment is one of the largest on the B-29 in the Detroit area." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
- Resource ID:
- na040206
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- B-29 (Bomber)--Design and construction
- Airplanes--Fuselage
- Hudson Motor Car Company
- 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, 90:5
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.