Women workers assembling Helldiver bomber wing, DeSoto plant
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."
