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Title
B-29 Mobile Training Unit No. 40 at Curtiss Wright Technical Institute, Special Devices Manufacturing Division, Southern California, 1944
Creator
Dick Whittington Studio
Date Created and/or Issued
1944
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
"Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
For uses other than private, contact USC Libraries Special Collections at the e-mail given
USC Libraries Special Collections
specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of servicemen standing with machinery and motors next to Mobile Training Unit trucks in front of Curtiss Wright Technical Institute, Southern California, 1944. "Cr[ilg] Central Air
Grand Central Air Terminal Main Entrance" -- building signage. "Curtiss Wright, Technical Institute, Special Devices Mfg. Div." -- on billboard. "B 29 Mobile Training Unit No. 40
Army Air [ilg] Training Command" -- on trailers. "'Ol'Dobbin'" -- on truck. "Load Adjuster
B-29, Oxygen Flow Diagram
Vacuum & De-Icer Flow Diagram-B-29
To Be Used Only By, Authorized Instrument Maintenance, Personnel" -- signage on training displays.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w, negative, 10x50 in.
B/W Nitrate
10x50 in.
photographs
negatives
Identifier
whit-neh-72269
DW-1944-49-22-134~01.TIF
http://doi.org/10.25549/whit-m2914
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/DW-1944-49-22-134~01.jpg
Subject
Curtiss Wright Technical Institute
Trucks
Machinery
Motors
Soldiers
Universities and colleges
Time Period
1944
Place
California
California, Southern
USA
Source
Job 1944-049-022-134 [Identifying Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
Archive bag no. 2
Box no. 43
image/tiff

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