Women workers assembling B-26 Marauder bombers at Hudson Motor Car Company factory
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Description
View of women assembling fuselage sections for B-26 Marauder bombers at the Hudson Motor Company factory in Detroit. Label on back: "Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich. Sighted on Berlin and Tokio! You may think you are looking through a super-telescope when you first glance at this picture. A long line of fuselage sections for Martin B-26 Marauder bombers being built in a Hudson plant in Detroit (and tagged for Berlin and Tokio) has that appearance. Skilled workers are placing miles and miles of vital wiring in the fuselages." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040117
- Subject:
- Marauder (Bomber)
- Bombers--Design and construction
- Airplanes--Fuselage
- Hudson Motor Car Company
- Women aircraft industry employees
- 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, 90:1
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.