The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Shorpy Photos: Home Front Bombers

APRIL 29, 2014, NEW SHOE 1943--  Dec. 1942.  "A landing wheel with its huge rubber 'shoe' is trumbled out in a service tractor to a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber awaiting completion at Boeing's Seattle plant."  Operated by a woman, who make up half the plant's workers.  By Andreas Feininger, OWI.

APRIL 27, 2014, LET'S BUILD A BOMBER: 1942--  Dec. 1942  "Production of B-17 heqavy bomber.  A skilled team of men and women workers at Boeing plant Seattle complete assembly and fitting operations of a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress)."  By Andreas Feininger.

Bombers, Oh My!  --GreGen

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