File:Women Douglas Aircraft Company plants1a35357v.jpg

English: A woman employee of Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California, being trained on the details of installing an aircraft engine. The engine is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp 14-cylinder radial engine of 1,200 horsepower (890 kW); it is being installed on a Douglas C-47 Skytrain twin-engined transport airplane, the military version of the Douglas DC-3 airliner.

Original title: Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer Date Created/Published: 1942 Oct. Medium: 1 transparency : color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsac-1a35357 (digital file from original transparency) LC-USW361-130 (color film copy slide) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LC-USW36-130 <P&P> [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes:

   Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
   General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
   Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.

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