MAKE A MEME View Large Image Airacobra P39 Assembly LOC 02902u.jpg The assembly plant of the Bell Aircraft Corporation at Wheatfield New York directly East of Niagara Falls USA The aircraft in the photo are Bell P-39Q-30-BE Airacobra fighters USAAF serials 44-71105/...
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Keywords: Airacobra P39 Assembly LOC 02902u.jpg The assembly plant of the Bell Aircraft Corporation at Wheatfield New York directly East of Niagara Falls USA The aircraft in the photo are Bell P-39Q-30-BE Airacobra fighters USAAF serials 44-71105/44-71504 and Bell P-63A-8-BE Kingcobra fighters USAAF serials 42-69211/42-69410 While externally very similar the P-39 had a smaller and more rounded tail section and a three-bladed propeller The two lines at left are P-39Qs followed by three lines of P-63As Then are two lines of almost completed P-39Qs serials clearly visible and a last line of P-63As Note the absence of any workers and tools LOC-image fsa 8e02902 between 1940 and 1946 author 1 negative 5 x 7 inches or smaller accession number Reproduction Number LC-USW33-059641 b w film neg Call Number LC-USW33- 059641 P P institution Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/pp print Actual size of negative is C approximately 4 x 5 inches To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers are similar in appearance and have titles There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist Transfer; United States Office of War Information Overseas Picture Division Washington Division; 1944 More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/pp fsaowi Rights Advisory No known restrictions on images made by the U S government; images copied from other sources may be restricted For information see U S Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black White Photographs http //www loc gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab html PD-USGov 1944 in New York Bell P-39 Airacobra Bell P-63 Kingcobra Factories in New York Aircraft assembly lines Military industry of the World War II home front in the United States
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