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Airplanes -- Design and construction -- Military

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Hildebrandt, James E.: Commonality in naval aircraft : its extent and effects, 1966

 File — Box 257, Folder: 17
Identifier: RG-13- File N420 .F8 1966 no.113
Dates: 1966

Woman working in airplane manufacture, 1942 Oct

 Item — Box 33: Series I, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSC-385- Series I- Sub-Series D- Item 100.10218
Scope and Contents

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Women work side by side with men in the engineering department of North American Aviation, Inc. at Inglewood, Calif. The young woman pictured above traces complicated drawings of the thousands of parts that go into a modern fighting plane. 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 prominence by the British raid on Dieppe."

Dates: 1942 Oct