Advance alert net problem

Advance Alert Net Problem, On-line at Foster Field, Texas - April 1942.

Formation flight

A twelve-ship formation over the Guadalupe River in the vicinity of Foster Field, Texas, Summer 1942.

Cadet ground school class

Cadet Ground School classes - Randolph Field, Texas, Spring 1942. Lt. Nicholas J. Garares instructing cadet class in Weather.

Cadet ground school class

Cadet Ground School classes - Randolph Field, Texas, Spring 1942. Lt. Benjamin J. Cabell conducting a cadet class in Code.

Oxygen for B-29 crews

Pfc. Robert A. McConnaughy, Jr., 328 Main St., Bridgeport, Ohio working on oxygen tanks on a trailer at Guam, Marianas Islands, 30 May 1945.

Salvage hangar

Interior of the salvage hangar of the 2d Base Air Depot, Lancashire, England, 27 June 1944.

Cleaning spare engine parts

Cleaning spare engine parts at Warrington-Burtonwood Air Depot, England where flak-torn planes are repaired and modified for future missions. These GIs are at work cleaning cylinder baffles for B-17s. (30 October 1943)

Engine Change on a "wounded" B-17

Engine Change on a "wounded" B-17 in England. HQ USSTAF Public Relations, Photo Section took this photo as the old and new engines of "Tomahawk Warrior" rest side-by-side at completion of first stage of full change. German fighters' 20 mm cannon shells knocked out two of the engines during May 24 Berlin mission, while overstrain at full power finished off the remaining two which brought the bomber home safely. Ground crewmen here are removing and washing salvageable parts in gasoline and putting other finishing touches on new engines before installation. The men of two ground crew teams get "Tomahawk" back into the air sooner in the stepped-up pre-invasion offensive.

Engines for Consolidated-Vultee BT-13s

Engines for Consolidated-Vultee BT-13s. From the time they leave their shipping cases until they roll out the hangar doors as part of a complete Consolidated-Vultee Basic Trainer, engines are handled by conveyors. Here they move through the sequence of operations for incorporating with them the assemblies and accessories that constitute them as power plant sections.

Triple lines for Lockheed "Lightnings."

Mechanized Conveyor Lines - Triple lines for Lockheed "Lightnings." Overall view of Lockheed's new mechanized P-38 line. Moving continuously, slowly, yet as surely as the hands of a watch, these three mechanized conveyor lines at the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. more than double the daily output of the old assembly line. The P-38 "Lightning" fighters come down the line at the right and are shunted over to the middle line where they grow their wings and engines. They then move backwards to the far end of the huge Final Assembly Hangar to go out the door and into a nearby paint hangar where they are camouflaged. Working exactly as an automobile assembly line, this mechanized line at Lockheed is notable not only because it is the first continuously moving final assembly line for combat aircraft in the West but, it also does what many experts said couldn't be done by putting twin-engined "Lightnings" on a full production basis. The room shown here was completely emptied of airplanes, which meanwhile were completed on an impromptu outdoor line. In eight days, the new mobile line was set up ready to receive its new quota of airplanes.

Northrop A-17s on the assembly line.

Northrop #1750 on assembly line. A-17s on the assembly line.

B-19 construction

Construction of experimental model - Rear fuselage section of B-19 (B-19719 A.C.)