Image
Workers assembling wing panels for Helldiver bomber, DeSoto Bomber Plant
Description:
View of workers assembling wing sections for Helldiver bomber aircraft at Chrysler Corporation's DeSoto Bomber Plant. Label on back: "From Desoto cars to Helldiver wing sections. Down the assembly lines that formerly spawned hundred of new DeSotos a day, big wing fixtures now move. These fixtures of rigid construction are specially designed to gain aircraft precision on a moving line. From Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc., Detroit, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "Conversion."
Details
Resource ID:
na032667
Format:
1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Filing Location:
MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Conversion, 86:7
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.