In October 1942, the Office of War Information in America asked Alfred T. Palmer to go around american factories, documenting the war effort of US gals building the equipment America would use to eventually fuck everyone up. Imagine your Grandma building a gun, or installing an engine - pretty cool, right?

Checking electrical sub-assemblies, Lockheed Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, California.

B-25 bomber cowl assembly, North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kansas.

Working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, California.