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Engine Dress Up Line at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation

Photograph of S.O. Woer and M.O. Robertson, workers in Dept. 57, on the engine dress up line. In this room, hanging aircraft engines are assembled and inspected at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas in January 1945.
Date: January 24, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Engine Dress Up Line at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation

Photograph of workers in Dept. 57, the engine dress up line. In this room, hanging aircraft engines are assembled and inspected at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas in January 1945.
Date: January 24, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

B-32 Assembly Line- Tail Groups

Photograph of the "tail groups" in the assembly line of the B-32s at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth Texas in January 1945.
Date: January 25, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hanging Vertical Fin on a B-32

Workers hang a tail fin on a B-32 aircraft at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas in January 1945. Other planes in the assembly line can be seen in the background.
Date: January 25, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

B-32 Assembly

Workers hang engine no. 1 on final assembly of a B-32 at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas on January 25, 1945.
Date: January 25, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

B-32 Assembly Line

B-32 assembly line at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas in January 1945.
Date: January 25, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Western Union Telegram] (open access)

[Western Union Telegram]

Photostat of a telegram from the United States Secretary of War to Mrs. Rose H. Gilbert, expressing his condolences for the death of her son, Private Harold Gilbert.
Date: January 14, 1945
Creator: United States Secretary of War & Dunlop
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Ladies Cemetery Society Minutes] (open access)

[Ladies Cemetery Society Minutes]

Handwritten minutes for the Ladies Cemetery Society commenting on the death of Private Harold Gilbert, the son of the society's recording secretary, Rose Gilbert. The text notes: “The absence of the secretary ...who had the misfortune of losing her son, Harold, Dec. 25, 1944, in the European Theater of the war, made the meeting a sad one; each and every one of the members present were in tears.” On the second page of the minutes, the group’s long-time president Mrs. Becky Goldstein recalls how she and Mrs. Gilbert used to “go out to collect dues at 25 cents each. Mrs. Gilbert furnished the horse and buggy.”
Date: January 16, 1945
Creator: Mehl, Mrs. I. N.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Cecile Kempner to Commander H. L. Kempner, January 2, 1945] (open access)

[Telegram from Cecile Kempner to Commander H. L. Kempner, January 2, 1945]

Telegram sent by Cecile Kempner to Commander Harris L. Kempner asking him to let her know if the Consolidated plane will leave Fort Worth on Friday or Saturday.
Date: January 2, 1945, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: Kempner, Cecile Blum
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Activator, Volume 1, Number 4, January 1945 (open access)

The Activator, Volume 1, Number 4, January 1945

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: January 1945
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Rabbi Newton J. Friedman to I. H. Kempner, January 12, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Rabbi Newton J. Friedman to I. H. Kempner, January 12, 1945]

Letter from Rabbi Newton J. Friedman to I. H. Kempner giving Kempner the option to drive to the B'nai B'rith Hillel meeting with Mose Feld instead of flying if he prefers. He also includes a list of the people who he had made flight reservations for.
Date: January 12, 1945
Creator: Friedman, Newton J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Rabbi Newton J. Friedman to Sol Brachman, January 5, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Rabbi Newton J. Friedman to Sol Brachman, January 5, 1945]

Letter from Rabbi Newton J. Friedman to Sol Brachman expressing his joy that the Fort Worth Federation had voted to donate $2,500.00 to the Hillel Building Fund. He also notifies Brachman that he will be holding the Co-Chairmen meeting in Austin and has reserved Braniff Air Lines tickets for him.
Date: January 5, 1945
Creator: Friedman, Newton J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from S. Brachman to Rabbi Newton J. Friedman, January 4, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from S. Brachman to Rabbi Newton J. Friedman, January 4, 1945]

Letter from S. Brachman to Rabbi Newton J. Friedman explaining that the Federation voted to subscribe $2500.00 to the Hillel Building fund to be given when the total funds necessary have been raised and construction has started. He also shares a list of approachable people to solicit donations from who reside outside of Fort Worth and the other cities surrounding Dallas.
Date: January 4, 1945
Creator: Brachman, S.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History