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Photograph of a Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet aircraft (tail number 238353), circa 1943.

Photograph of Moya O. Lear (center) receiving Civil Air Patrol (CAP) wings from a serviceman, circa 1943.Inscription on verso: "1943 / MOL getting wings in CAP."

Photograph of the production line at the Lear Avia facility in Piqua, Ohio, circa 1943. Employees, predominantly women, work on device components at long work tables.Inscription on verso: "1943 -- Piqua. [illegible] Dept. View of production…

Photographic slide of three U.S. Army Air Forces servicemen, circa 1943. Inscription on slide: "86. Graebener, Wolz, Stein."Inscription on slide index: "86. Graebener, Wolz, Stein, 43."

Photographic slide of serviceman John W. Allen holding a mop, circa 1943.Inscription on slide: "Me with mop / John / Mop / 1943."

Photographic slide of serviceman John W. Allen holding a goat skin, circa 1943. Inscription on slide: "John / Goat skin / 43."

Photographic slide of serviceman John W. Allen reading, circa 1943. Inscription on slide: "Me reading York / John [MOP?] 43."

Photographic slide of John W. Allen (center) with two other servicemen, Texas, circa 1943. Inscription on slide: "Tex. 43 / John / Kermit."

Photographic slide of serviceman John W. Allen in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, Hondo, Texas, circa 1943. The inscription notes that this was taken during Allen's training.Inscription on slide: "34 / John / Hondo / TX 43."

Photographic slide of serviceman John W. Allen with an unidentified man and child by a display of pottery, circa 1943.Inscription on slide: "John 43 / Peddler."