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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. A Negro employee at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American puts the finishing touches on the windshield of a B-25 bomber. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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Palmer, Alfred T.

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1942 Oct.
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  1. California
  2. Inglewood
  3. Los Angeles County
  4. Safety Film Negatives
  5. United States

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