Picture History of WWII American Aircraft Production – Dover Transportation Series

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Author(s): Joshua Stoff 

Number of pages: 160

Good condition

Over 250 rare photographs most never published before comprise an eye-filling chronicle of men and women hard at work in a crucial wartime industry: hooking up an engine, hanging a propeller, riveting the “skin” on a fuselage and performing many other tasks. Also included are authentic, on-the-spot photographs of aircraft assembly lines in full swing, of teams of workers turning out Boeing B-17 bombers in Seattle, huge B-24D “Liberators” at the Ford plant in Willow Run, Michigan, and F6F Grumman “Hellcat” fighters in Bethpage, Long Island, New York

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