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Title: Flora Foss, sister of flying ace
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photo of Flora Foss operating a turret lathe at Vega Aircraft Corporation. She is the sister of Capt. Joseph J. Foss, nominated America's flying ace of World War II. A cable from Captain Foss told her he was coming home on leave from Guadalcanal. Photo dated: April 7, 1943.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00040814
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 9932.
CARL0000044787
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12592
Subject: Foss, Flora
Vega Aircraft Corporation
Drill presses--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Fighter pilots--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Foss, Joe,1915-2003

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