Re: Woman and airplanes
 

pictures are public domain

Re: Woman and airplanes
 

Ahhh...women went to work and the world has never been the same.... ;)

Actually these are a great example of what American men fought for! You don't see any slogan aircraft like "For Democracy" or "For Roosevelt"! The majority are women's names. :D

Re: Woman and airplanes
 

A bazilian thanks for posting these. Surprisingly high quality color photography. Eastman Kodak must have mixed up a special batch of silver-bromide emulsion (Building 30, Kodak Park, Lake Ave., Rochester, New York - I worked in that building one summer 53 years ago) for the film and provided special processing. Another observation is the clothing, which is 100% authentic. The aircraft plants should have made more coveralls/overalls available to the women instead of making them work in their own clothes, which must have gotten torn and dirty real quick while crawling around inside the fuselages. Maybe they got a clothing allowance. I can still recall seeing mobs of women dressed like that, their hair tied up in colorful bandanas and carrying their lunch boxes, getting on and off city buses in Rochester during shift changes in 1944-45. So many years ago.

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Looks like the photographer used the old National Geographic technique, and coached the ladies about wearing "something red."