Detail View: McClain (Herbert A.) Photographs: For a while, North American Aviation, Inc. occupied the Douglas plant to assemble a 4-engine attack bomber-fighter jet for the Air Force. This turned out to be a fiasco because the plane was built entirely without any kind of "firepower" (i.e. no cannon, no machine gun, no bomb bay). When the designers asked he Air Force for information the said, "Never mind; we will take care of all that." The 25 planes were delivered and sent to an Arizona storage area, and finally melted down for scrap aluminum.
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For a while, North American Aviation, Inc. occupied the Douglas plant to assemble a 4-engine attack bomber-fighter jet for the Air Force. This turned out to be a fiasco because the plane was built entirely without any kind of "firepower" (i.e. no cannon, no machine gun, no bomb bay). When the designers asked he Air Force for information the said, "Never mind; we will take care of all that." The 25 planes were delivered and sent to an Arizona storage area, and finally melted down for scrap aluminum.
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Date:
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1947
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Decade:
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1940-1949
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Creator:
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McClain, Hubert A.
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Type:
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Photograph
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Format:
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B/W Negative
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Subject:
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Bombers
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Corporate Names:
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North American Aviation, Inc.
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Corporate Names:
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Douglas Aircraft
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Geographic Location:
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Los Angeles County - Long Beach
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Rights:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the Sherman Library. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact Sherman Library at library@slgardens.org.
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Filename:
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McClain_002-442.tif
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Identifier:
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442
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