6658(2) | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Photo ID:
6658(2)
Date:
October 1942
Description:
Caption on back reads: "Women take over the operation of some of the heaviest machine tools at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation, Inc. Day and night, shifts of girl employees uses this huge hydraulic press to form thousands of sheet metal parts for United Nations war planes. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominenceby the British raid on Dieppe."
Phys. Desc:
Still Photograph
Repository:
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Subjects:
Rights:
To the best of our knowledge, this image is in the public domain and can be used without further permission.