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 "Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at work on the TVA's Douglas Dam in Tennessee, 1942

  

 A painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 Mustang fighter prior to spraying with olive-drab camouflage. North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California, 1942

  

 B-17F Flying Fortress at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach plant, October 1942

  

 B-25 bomber assembly hall, North American Aviation, Kansas City, 1942

  

 B-25 bomber final assembly line at North American Aviation works, Inglewood, California, 1942

  

 Douglas Aircraft Co. at Long Beach, California. Carefully trained women inspectors check cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, 1942

  

 Final assembly for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Inglewood, California, 1942

  

 Fort Knox, Kentucky. Infantryman with halftrack. A young soldier 

sights his Garand rifle like an old-timer, 1942

  

 Furnace man at phosphate smelter, TVA chemical plant near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1942

  

 Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation 

being hauled along an outdoor assembly line, 1942

  

 P-51 fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the 

North American Aviation, Inglewood, California, October, 1942

  

 Parris Island, South Carolina. Marine lieutenant glider pilot in training at Page Field, 1942

 

 Servicing an A-20 bomber at Langley Field, Virginia, 1940

  

 Thousands of North American Aviation employees at Inglewood, California, look skyward as the bomber and fighter planes they helped build perform overhead during a lunch period air show, 1942

  

 Touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Consolidated-Vultee's Nashville division, 1943

  

Truck driver at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam, 1942

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 Woman working on a bomber's wheel well, 1943

  

 Woman working on landing gear for P-51, 1942

  

 Woman working on self-sealing gas tanks, 1943

  

 Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, 1942

  

 Women workers groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers, 1942

  

 Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, 1942

  

 Worker assembling nose for B-17F, 1942

  

 Worker installing wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, 1942

  

 Working on the horizontal stabilizer of a Vengeance dive bomber 

at the Consolidated-Vultee plant in Nashville, 1943

  

 Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, 1942

  

 Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Fort Knox, Kentucky

  

 Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers 

as they move down the assembly line, Inglewood, California, 1942

  

On North American Aviation's outdoor assembly line, employees rush 

a B-25 to completion, Inglewood, California, 1942

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Here are some more amazing photos of the women who helped us win World War II.

 North American Aviation workers assembling wing component for a P-51 fighter, 1942

 Metal parts are placed on masonite by this employee 

before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, 1942

 Engine installers at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, California, 1942

 Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled, 1942

 Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, 1942

 Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine in North American Aviation's sheet metal department, Inglewood, California, 1942

 These girls are preparing a metal fuel tank to receive a bullet-sealing cover, 

an important new safety development to military aviation, 1942

 Two women workers capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the 

manufacture of the Vengeance (A-31) dive bomber, 1943

 Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 heavy transport 

at North American Aviation, 1942

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers 

at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California, plant, 1942

Alfred Palmer - Women Workers in WW2

Alfred Palmer took photos of real-life "Rosie the Riveters" in American munitions factories during World War II.

 A real-life Rosie the Riveter operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, Tennessee, working on an A-31 Vengeance dive bomber, 1943

 A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, 1942

 A young woman riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company, 1942

 Aluminum casting, 1942

 American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, 1942

 Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, 1942

 Engine inspector for North American Aviation at Long Beach, California, 1942

 Engine installer, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, 1942

 Operating a bolt-cutting machine, 1943

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, 1942