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[Ground breaking Plant 2]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Keystone Aircraft and aircraft mechanics of the Assembly Department]
Keystone preceded Fleetwing Aircraft. Third from left standing is Frank Deluca. Kneeling second from left is Danny Graco. Others unidentified. -
[Jig transfer car]
On back: "Just as soon as the portable jig arrives at line’s end it is rolled onto a transfer car and returned via auxiliary tracks, to the assembly line’s start ---- ready for another trip. Transfer cars at each end of the line facilitate a rapid return" [information typed on a piece of paper attached to photo]. "Courtesy of Fleetwings, Inc." -
[Louis DiCicco, janitor]
"Owner of cat."
Biography of DiCicco included in clipping (dated January 1945) included on back of photograph. -
[Two Fleetwings employees, woman on left Jeannette C. Keich]
Written on back of photograph: "Ed: I’ll always remember those grand talks we had together. Best wishes to one of the nicest men I worked with. Jeannette C Keich 'Keichy.'"
Man unidentified. -
[Fleetwings employee and "Fleetwings Magazine" reporter Dot Yoder]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."
Biography from "Fleetwings Magazine" article (dated April 1945) included on back of photograph. -
[Fleetwings employee Bette Fisher]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
[Fleetwings employee Madge Pintin]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
"Fleetwings Gruman Leading Edge Gang"
Sign held by man to left of American flag reads "Hitler's coffin." -
[Plant 1 lady guard]
Women unidentified.
Group called the "Driverettes" (information from "Fleetwings News" December 1943). -
"7th War Loan Drive, Kaiser Cargo, Inc., Fleetwings Division" [billboard]
Sign reads: "Let's put the heat on, the boys over there sure did!"
Russell Stanton was Union President. He is on the right in the light jacket. -
[Plant 1 assembly line]
Typed note pasted to back of photograph: "Women have taken over men’s jobs to the extent of completely manning on final assembly line in the factory." -
[Plant 2 opening]
Stamped on back: "Prints by Prinz Otto C. Prinz, 1115 Anchor Street, Del. 0564, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." -
[Fleetwings event with Colonel Hawkins, speaker]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
Postcard: "Kaiser Metal Products, Bristol, PA."
The lower building to the right billboard was the main office building. History of property written on back of photograph. -
[Plant 1 telephone operators at Fleetwings Aircraft Company, Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA]
Standing: unidentified. Seated foreground: Mary Quigley of Bath Street, who married Herbert Pettit. Seated in background: unidentified. -
[Industrial Relations, Plant 1 personnel department]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."