Woman and airplanes
 

come across these pictures ( and before one would fall in love... these girls are older then your grandma by now.

You go girls

Workers installing fixtures and assemblies in the tail section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company

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dear god....beautiful and i dont mean the wiring

P38 wiring

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http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...ker_colour.jpg


parts of a B17 F

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Working on a b25 spar

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working on the engine (Wright Whirlwind)

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Punching rivet holes for an ineer wing part of a B-25 C

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...rivetholes.jpg

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watch out... mom is around....

B17? a20?

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Assembling switchboxes on the firewall of a B25 bomber

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Girls working an a p51 wing

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Girl machining a part for a Douglas

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girl working on her Vengeance

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B17 F This picture was used to make posters for the war afford.

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...orkers_4_F.jpg

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Angels at work.

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pictures are public domain

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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

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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."