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Boeing News — November 1943, Vol. XIII, No. 11 —

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Cover
Isabelle Hathaway
Barbara Heinz
Fern Nicholson

Main Articles
B-17-G
Behind the Chin Turret — Reynolds Phillips
388 Punches on the Nose — Quinn Prichard
Spareplanes
Color Guaranteed to Run — Ruth Thomas
80-Round Fighters — Jim Douglas
Sure Fire Shop — Helen Call
My Day Care — Motley Bunch
Stationery “Engineers” — Laurie Matterson
Seattle Attacks
Photo Finish

Artist Drawings
“Secret weapons” cartoon — James Wandesforde
Oxnard and Luna cartoon — Keith Kinsman

Boeing Factory Workers
Aas, Henry
Almy, Earl
Anderson, Herbert
Anderson, L. E.
Andrews, W. I.
Annear, William
Barton, Jack
Bawens, Roamin
Birkes, Maude
Bonus, Butch
Botts, Ivan
Bratset, Arthur
Brown, Charles
Brown, Thomas
Bullwinkel, W. A.
Butler, Joe
Carley, Bernice
Chafin, Bill
Crabill, John W.
Dies, Carl
Dike, Frances
Duncan, Gordon
Eger, Joe
Eklund, Art
Evans, Jere
Faltus, Felix
Foster, N. H.
Fox, E. J.
Gamlen, Tory
Gardner, Hugh
Good, Earl
Greenup, Barbara
Griddle, George
Halversen, Glenn
Hamlin, Bob
Hansen, Alfred
Harris, Gordon
Hartman, R. G.
Hellum, Henry
Hewitt, Lyle
Hilker, Philip
Hoff, Hans
Holmes, Tom
Holstein, Signe
Hudson, Ed
Jensen, Albert
Johnson, Eugene
Johnson, Harold
Johnson, Howard
Johnson, Orvie
Jones, Wallace
Kalweit, August
Kartess, R. A.
Lentz, Gordon
Lindskog, Olga
Lovelace, C. F.
Mallett, H. E.
Manning, Cleo
Mason, Eugene
Matelich, Vincent
McBride, Charles
McIntire, Tom
Milligan, Joe
Nivison, Don
Nyquist, Flora
O’Rourke, Eugene
Overway, Henry
Paden, Joseph
Parsons, Ward
Patton, D. E.
Pederson, Niels
Peterson, Pete
Phipps, Alvin
Pohlman, Elmer
Ramage, Walter
Requa, Jim
Rinehart, Elwood
Robertson, Alexander
Roebuck, Arline
Rohrscheib, Walter
Rudy, Andy
Schell, K. G.
Schultz, Charles
Slavens, Eldon
Snare, Lee
Spurgeon, Ray
Staley, Arma
Stauffer, J. F.
Stenger, Al
Stewart, Hap
Stott, Don
Stults, Wiley
Suess, George
Sundstrom, Walter
Sweet, W. L.
Taylor, Ernest
Taylor, F. A.
Teig, Ralph
Thatcher, L. C.
Uht, Frank
Watt, Hugh
Webb, D. J.
Wellock, E. T.
Whaley, Ruth
Wielde, Robert
Willard, Gordon
Word, Donald
Wood, Harley

Vol. XIII No. 11

Cover: “G-whiskers” the chin foliage of the new B-17G. Not yet faired into the fuselage, this chin turret pauses long enough on the production line to have its portrait made. In the bomber’s nose are, left to right, Isabelle Hathaway, Barbara Heinz, Fern Nicholson. Photo by Don McQuade (See pages 3, 4, 10, for B-17G and turrets.) ……. Inside Articles: …

Even a whisper is loud

B-17-G – Ordinarily, a scrapper’s chin is built to take it. The chin of the new model G Boeing Flying Fortress, on the other hand. is built to dish it out, plenty.

Behind The Chin Turret – You can’t add firepower to a plane by rubbing a magic lamp. It takes blood, courage, ingenuity and time. The Yanks had what it took in Europe’s skies. By Reynolds Phillips

388 Punches On The Nose – Meet the porcupine, one of the latest and most amazing creatures in the Boeing menagerie. It throws punches by hundreds.

Spare planes – Not all Flying Fortresses fly away from Boeing under their own power. Some of the most important ones come off the production lines in many pieces.

Color Guaranteed – The paint shop at Renton looks like a soda fountain, a moving assembly line, a science laboratory and vat 69-and turns out 30,000 paint Jobs in a shift.

80-Round Fighters By Jim Douglas – On 165 missions, these two sergeants found Japs, forest fires, fat natives named Hector, and plenty of medals. Now they’re preparing for more of the same.

Sure Fire Shop By Helen Call – The famous shooting power of the Flying Fortress gets its Start in Boeing gun shop, where the guns are lined up on the enemy long before he appears.

Truck and Wing

My Day Care By Motley Bunch (Boeing News Secret Agent) – Grown-ups are satisfied with the day nurseries as a place to leave children while their mothers work in war plants. But how do the children feel about it? What is the true story -the whole story? In this exclusive article are the daring revelations of a Boeing News reporter who was smuggled into a nursery disguised s a four-year-old child.

Stationery “Engineers” By Laurie Matterson – Fortresses are built of paper and pencils and Scotch tape, as well as aluminum and rivets. They provide the parts in the stationery nook of store 442.

Seattle Attacks – If ever there was any doubt that the Army considers the Flying Fortress its prime weapon, it was dispelled the night of October 3 when the Army and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce staged a gold-braided, star-studded extravaganza the like of which the aircraft industry had never seen before. The show’s purpose was to recruit workers for Boeing, where the manpower shortage threatened production schedules.

Oxnard and Luna Fumblethumb

Photo Finish

Battleship of the Skies