Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. 
<ul><li>Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the south Pacific, Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions.</li></ul>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alfred_T._Palmer" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alfred T. Palmer"><span title="photographer">Alfred T. Palmer</span></a>
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1942-10
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