Women workers assembling wing flaps for B-29 Superfortress bomber
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Description
View of women workers assembling wing flaps for the B-29 Superfortress bomber at the Fisher Body Cleveland Aircraft Plant no. 2. 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 photo and caption have been reviewed by the War Department." Stamped on back: "Fisher Body Photographic, 3-258 General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Creator:
- Fisher Body Photographic
- Resource ID:
- na040207
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- B-29 (Bomber)--Design and construction
- Flaps (Airplanes)
- General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division
- 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
- Negative Number:
- 16004-122
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.