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A lot of you guys probably know about the "Shorpy" antique photo site.

Today they posted a nice shot from a factory where a woman is touching up the national insignia on Navy plane. I think she's just touching up the edges where paint bled under the stencil(?)

(click on the photo at the link to supersize it)

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10631

N2S-3 or an N3N ? Fabric upper wing, no red center dot, though I guess there were a few other fabric wings still used in training there at Corpus Christi, 1942.

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Here is a link to a bunch of "LIFE" pics from Corpus, B&W though. Very cool mix of aircraft.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13935339@N ... 388213324/

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Judging by how carefully posed an lit the shot is, and the fact that the Rosie is spotless, I'd say it's probably a staged PR picture. That paint brush is probably dried rock-hard. Still a cool pic though..you gotta love those old Kodachromes.

SN

looks very early in the war

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Argh! She set the can down on the fresh blue paint!

I agree it's a staged shot. There were a lot of these during the war, even early on like this, August 1942, shot.

But I love them! and Steve you're right...Love me some Kodachrome! Too bad it's all but gone.

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If they were going to take that amount of effort on the paint details no planes would ever have made it to the frontline, but a nice propaganda shot.

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You are right "whistlingdeathcoarsairs"

As it states in the photo 1942

You are very sharp!

Can not pull the wool over your eyes!

bar none!

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