painting US wing insignia- picture on Shorpy

[Richard W.]

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

[Holedigger]

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.

[Holedigger]

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/

[Steve Nelson]

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

[whistlingdeath77]

looks very early in the war

[Ztex]

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.

[AviationArtist]

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.

[the330thbg]

looks very early in the war

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!