Year: 2017

Other War Workers 

NYU Camouflage Class Student Prepares For War Job

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments camouflage class, civilian worker training, job training, New York University

Student in a camouflage class at New York University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army

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Aircraft Workers 

Women Workers Cap and Inspect Tubing at Vultee Aircraft

January 19, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments aircraft plant, army air forces, aviation plant, civilian workers, dive bomber, Vultee Aircraft, women workers

Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the “Vengeance” (A-31) dive bomber

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Aircraft Workers 

Aviation Worker Touches Up Bomber Insignia

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments army air forces, aviation worker, civilian worker, dive bomber, Vultee Aircraft, World War II

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side

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Aircraft Workers 

Aviation Worker Assembles B-25 Bomber Switch Boxes

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments assembly plant, aviation worker, b-25 bomber, civilian worker, North American Aviation

World War II aviation worker assembles switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Inc.’s Inglewood,

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Aircraft Workers 

Aviation Workers Assemble P-51 Wing Section

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments assembly plant, aviation plant, aviation workers, civilian workers, fighter plane, P-51

Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane. October

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Other War Workers 

Women War Workers Painting Factory Equipment

January 19, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments civilian workers, factory workers, women war workers

Women war workers painting factory equipment during World War II. 1942. Photo size: 2304 × 3000 Photo source: Library of

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Railroad Workers 

Women Railroad Workers on Lunch Break

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and North Western Railroad, civilian workers, railroad workers, women workers, wwii jobs

Women railroad workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room at the Chicago and North

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Railroad Workers 

Women Wipers at Chicago and Northwestern Railroad

January 19, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and North Western Railroad, civilian workers, locomotive, railroad workers, roundhouse

Marcella Hart and Elibia Siematter, women wipers at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, cleaning one of

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Railroad Workers 

Women Railroad Workers at the Roundhouse

January 19, 2017March 5, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and North Western Railroad, civilian workers, iowa, locomotive, railroad workers, roundhouse

Women wipers employed at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, cleaning one of the giant “H” class

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Railroad Workers 

Women Railroad Workers Clean Giant Locomotive

January 19, 2017January 25, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Chicago and North Western Railroad, civilian workers, locomotive, railroad workers

Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers, women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, clean one of the

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