Douglas Aircraft Roller Skating Messengers
World War II Era
Douglas Aircraft Roller Skating Messenger Girls
During the World War II, Douglas Aircraft hired roller skating messenger girls
to deliver interdepartmental communications at their aircraft manufacturing
plant in El Segundo, California.
This photo was taken
sometime between 1942 and 1945 and it is part of the
United States Office of War Information photograph collection.
Image was reprinted on this Web site with permission
from the United States Library of Congress.
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1921 - Douglas Aircraft founded by Donald Douglas Sr.
1967 - Company Merged with McDonnell Aircraft
1997 - McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing