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oneshooter

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17. Both of my Moms parents worked for Boeing aircraft in California.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 09:01 PM

Jan 2018

Her Mom was a installing wiring and gauge piping on the B-25. While her Dad was a Master tinsmith and built and maintained the master forms for the wing and body panels. When the B29 was being developed and built they were moved to Boeing's Wichita plant. in Kansas.
He was in a "safe" job, and could not be drafted. Little did the military know that he spoke German, Czech, and Bohemian fluently.
Grand mother was 5'tall and could walk upright inside the wing of a B-29!! She had a crew of "little people" working for her on the assembly line Boeing was the largest employer of "little people" during the war.

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