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Airplane Wing section ready for Shipment

1943

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Airplane Wing section ready for Shipment
  • Title
  • Airplane Wing section ready for Shipment
  • Identifier
  • MSP57.B001.F15.I06
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP57.B001.F15.I06
  • Description
  • Workers at the H.J. Heinz Company Main Plant in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood prepare a completed glider wing for shipment to a final assembly location during World War II. The Heinz plant, normally a food-processing center, was the location of a secret project to build glider wings as part of the war effort. These gliders played a major role in Allied invasions and other military operations during the war. The wing was made of plywood and painted aluminum to resemble metal. Here, J.H. Rich, army air force inspector, left, authorizes Harry Anderson, Heinz inspector, to place an acceptance tag on the finished section of the wing.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • H.J. Heinz Company.
    Gliders (Aeronautics)--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    World War, 1939-1945.
    Rich, J.H.
    Anderson, Harry.
  • Source
  • H.J. Heinz Company, Photographs, 1864-1991, MSP 57, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • H.J. Heinz Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center