Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Douglas Plant - Long Beach, CA


This above photo was taken in 1942 during the war effort at home. Go to the photo source link (below) and discover what they were working on…

On the tails of our homefront profiles activities, what are your reactions to this photo?



Photo Source: http://docsteach.org/documents/195486/print


32 comments:

  1. Men and woman are working on military aircraft in Big Douglas plant. im not that surprised because woman always made things for the war, i just never knew woman helped out with military aircraft

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  2. They were creating weapons to use in war. these weapons are new, and women played a big part in creating them.

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  3. The man and woman were working on a military aircraft. And I dont really have a reaction towards this I mean I feel like if a woman wants to work on a military aircraft so be it. I want to be a pilot but there arent a lot of female pilots. So I'm all for woman working on aircraft and such.

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  4. Men and women are working on a military airplane. Im not surprised at all i mean while the men were at war the women worked to make things for war all the time. I mean you can't be surprised cause if the women didn't work while men were at war we would not have weapons for war

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  5. I think the picture is pretty amazing. it shows the growth the country has been through. The man and woman are working together on something important and crucial to the war.

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  6. New weapons were essential to the war & women are begging to play a bigger roll in production of new and bigger products.

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  7. It shows something that, at the time, had become common, women had begun to work 'men's jobs because a lot of the men in the country were at war. It was our countries way of compensating for the lack of people available to work and it helped women keep their families going while their husband and/or sons were gone.

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  8. it became common for men and women working together, ecspecially at the time of war.

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  9. It seems like it a lazer not a military aircraft.

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  10. It shows that women are becoming bigger in things people thought only men could do like building military weapons to send to war.

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  11. When I first looked at the photo I thought it was a giant laser but as I looked at it I realized it was a plane engine

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  12. Man and women joining in producing a vital military aircraft at the big Douglas plant

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  13. This picture has a man and a woman working together to build a military aircraft. I did not have a powerful reaction about seeing his picture, but I first thought "what are they building?" Then I read the title and realized that they were building an aircraft. I have never seen the inside of the aircraft, so I was amazed at how the inside of the aircraft actually looked like.

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  14. At this time it was common for women to do mens jobs. So it doesn't surprise me to see women working on it too. It was lack of hands due to people going off in the military. Women had to stack back and support the family life,

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  15. The men and women were working together in building a vital military aircraft.

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  16. They're working on a military plane engine, it looks like. I don't have much of an opinion on this photo seeing as though there isn't much detail behind it.

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  17. I think that its impressive because it shows that our country is getting better technology.

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  18. They are at the BIg Douglas plant, in Long Beach, Cali. Where man and women are working together to make a vital military aircraft

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  19. A man and women are working on a military warcraft. During the war women had to a lot of jobs the a man normally would have had to do.

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  20. Men and women joined together to work on making a vital military aircraft at the big Douglas plant in Long Beach California. i knew that men worked and did construction for war, but I always thought that women were nurses, but that pictured opened my eyes to something new.

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  21. It shows that a woman is helping fix or repair a engine of a plane because men's were at war at the time. Some men's were not at war at the time to help women's work.

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  22. Man and woman were joining on producing a military aircraft at a big Douglas plant .

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  23. Man and women joining in producing a vital military aircraft at the big Douglas plant in Long Beach, Calif.

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  24. Man and women joining in producing a vital military aircraft at the big Douglas plant in Long Beach, Calif.

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  25. Men and women were coming together on a project that had something to do with the military aircraft.

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  26. Men and women joining to produce a vital military aircraft, I never knew that women would be working at this kind of job.

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  27. Men and women joining to produce a vital military aircraft, I never knew that women would be working at this kind of job.

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  28. People working on a military aircraft In California

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  29. A advance gun on a military plane!

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