Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a flight instructor; 1942 August; LC-USW361-387

Woman Painting Insignia

Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. May, 1943. LC-USW361-725

Sailor and Girl at Tomb

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. Better known as the &quot;Flying Fortress,&quot; 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; 1942 October; LC-USW361-103