Women workers riveting fuselage of Avenger bomber
Grab
Description
View of women workers riveting the fuselage of an Avenger bomber at General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division plant. Label on back: "Women throw themselves whoe [sic]-heartedly into the task of riveting the fuselage section of an 'Avenger' torpedo bomber at the Baltimore, Maryland plant of General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division. They show amazing agility at climbing into any position necessary to get the job done." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040265
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- Rivets and riveting, Aircraft
- Airplanes--Fuselage
- Bombers--Design and construction
- General Motors
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Women workers, 90:7
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.