War Manpower Commission & Women


Deferred
from Look magazine

"Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach plant. Women workers groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers." by Alfred Palmer, Oct. 1942, from Patch-NA

"Chippers" - Women war workers of Marinship Corp.
from NA


Women workers chart
from Newsweek 1943/09/06

Mary Purdue, parachute maker
from Look magazine

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