Women workers assembling Helldiver bomber wing, DeSoto plant
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Description
View of women workers assembling the wing for a Helldiver bomber at a DeSoto plant. Label on back: "Wing units take shape. Sub assemblies of the type pictured above provide DeSoto-built Helldiver center wing panels with leading and trailing edges, center wing rib constructions and other internal wing units. Later the units above will be lowered from a balcony with a former automobile body drop to become part of a wing on the main DeSoto wing building. From: Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc., Detroit, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040282
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- Helldiver (Dive bomber)--Design and construction
- Airplanes--Wings
- DeSoto Motor Corporation
- 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, 90:8
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.