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Courtesy | Library of Congress Bowen, a riveter, and Olsen, her supervisor, in the Assembly and Repair Dept. at the Naval Air B Courtesy | Library of Congress A riveter works on a Consolidated bomber at the Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Courtesy | Library of Congress A woman touches up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Veng Courtesy | Library of Congress A woman at the Vultee is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing befor Courtesy | Library of Congress A woman puts finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach Courtesy | Library of Congress A woman works on a motor at Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, Calif. Oct. 1942. Courtesy | Library of Congress A riveter works on an A-20 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. Oc Courtesy | Library of Congress Women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company in Courtesy | Library of Congress A woman assembles part of the cowling for a motor for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Courtesy | Library of Congress A woman works on manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron, Courtesy | Library of Congress A woman assembles a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane at Nort Courtesy | Library of Congress Mary Betchner inspects one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 10 Courtesy | Library of Congress Elizabeth Little, 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts at the Heil Company makin Courtesy | Library of Congress Lucile Mazurek, 29, works on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Forc Courtesy | Library of Congress Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood tr