Flight Sergeant Maxwell Riddell and workers with bomber fuselage section, Hudson Motor Car Company
View of Flight Sergeant Maxwell Riddell of the Royal Air Force and workers with a bomber aircraft fuselage section at the Hudson Motor Car Company. Label on back: "'Here goes another blow against Jerry,' said Flight Sergt. Maxwell Riddell of the RAF as he drilled a hole for a rivet in one of the bomber fuselage sections being built by the Hudson Motor Car Company. The picture was made inside one of the partly completed airplane sections which are being produced in quantities on the assembly lines where only a few months ago Hudson manufactured automobile parts. Riddell is only 20 but he has been over Germany 81 times and has participated in RAF raids on every important target in the Reich. He toured Detroit war production plants with a group of 15 United Nations heroes." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft--Bombers (Parts & assembly)."
- Resource ID:
- na032388
- Subject:
- Airplanes--Fuselage
- Bombers--Design and construction
- Aircraft industry--Employees
- Hudson Motor Car Company
- Great Britain. Royal Air Force--Officers
- 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, Aircraft--Bombers (Parts & Assembly), 85:9
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.