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Do you know these Aviators?
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| 1-17-08
| Kingpin Of Cowtown
Posted on 01/17/2008 2:32:17 PM PST by Dysart
The Library of Congress is looking for your help adding more information to this and about 40 other photos taken in the early 1940s in Fort Worth. Many are from Meacham Field and Consolidated Aircraft Corp. and feature classic images of student pilots and female factory workers
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aviators; fortworth; loc
The link above will take you to more mystery photos which the Library OF Congress is hoping to identify.
Or click here.
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posted on
01/17/2008 2:32:19 PM PST
by
Dysart
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
01/17/2008 2:34:49 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Dysart
Terrific photos, thanks for posting!
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posted on
01/17/2008 2:41:56 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(We've checked, and all your zeroes are OK. We're still working on your ones.)
To: Dysart
I believe the airplane in the FLICKR page is a Stinson V-77 "Reliant" -- was a navigation trainer.... also known as a "gullwing"...
Dont recognize any faces....
Might name them all....
From Spence... (a south GA contract school - similar ops)
Good hunting...
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posted on
01/17/2008 2:47:07 PM PST
by
Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)
To: Dysart
Wow, great quality on the photos. Some terrific photos of “Rosies” at work, too.
To: Dysart
To: colorado tanker
Wow, great quality on the photos. Some
terrific riveting photos of “Rosies” at work, too.
There. Much better...
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posted on
01/17/2008 3:15:55 PM PST
by
null and void
(Conservatives are tired of being sucked up to every 4 years and stabbed in the back for the next 3.)
To: colorado tanker; y'all
Wow, great quality on the photos. Some terrific photos of “Rosies” at work, too. I thought the same thing. BTW, the LOC, too, has a blog with more pictures.
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posted on
01/17/2008 3:17:00 PM PST
by
Dysart
To: Dysart
This one is easy, her name is Rosie:
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posted on
01/17/2008 3:18:11 PM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: Dysart
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posted on
01/17/2008 3:21:14 PM PST
by
svcw
(There is no plan B.)
To: Dysart
There's just something about a good looking woman using tools that sparks my interest.....
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posted on
01/17/2008 3:21:34 PM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
I'm partial to this one:
[Servicing an A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va.]
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posted on
01/17/2008 3:27:55 PM PST
by
Dysart
To: null and void
To: Dysart
"Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)"
That very same factory is now turning out F-16s and parts of the F-22. After building B-24 Liberators (they did!) , they switched to B-36 Peacemakers (They did!) B-58 Hustlers (It really did!), and F-111s (they swung low) before the F-16s.
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posted on
01/17/2008 5:06:54 PM PST
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
The “Lady” is probably older than your grandma, If she’s still with us, which is likely, those Texas women are tough. I know she’s older than my mother, who also worked in a WW-II defense plant (fuses) but was too young for the assembly floor so she operated the elevator. I’m a grandpa of 3 myself.
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posted on
01/17/2008 5:10:10 PM PST
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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