The Old Picture of the Day Blog http://old-photo.blogspot.com had pictures of women working on aircraft during the war all of this past week. Everyone always hears about the fighting and military, but usually there is very little about the total impact on the home front.
As the men left for the military, women stepped in to industries to make the weapons they needed to win the war. Even after the war, women in larger numbers began leaving the house and working in the business world. A breakdown of the photos:
APRIL 5TH-- 1942-- a woman painting the insignia of a plane.
APRIL 6TH-- 1942-- three women working on the fuselage of a Liberty Bomber in Ft. Worth, Texas, at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation.
APRIL 7TH-- 1942-- woman at North American Aviation, Inc.'s Inglewood, Ca., factory.
APRIL 8TH-- Flying Fortress-- 1942-- women assembling bombardier nose section of a B-17 F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Co. plant in Long Beach, Ca.. The B-17s were known as Flying Fortresses and carried a 7-9 man crew.
APRIL 9TH-- woman working on the control surface of a horizontal stabilizer at the North American Aircraft company.
Definitely worth a look.
World War II Home Front. --Cooter
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