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This article, published in the Wichita Eagle, details the efforts to develop a efficient method of transporting the thousands of aircraft industry workers to their jobs at various manufacturing plants in Wichita, Kansas.
Creator: Wichita Eagle
Date: March 31, 1942
This article can be used to help students appreciate the level of effort and coordination that went into ensuring that the Wichita workforce had reliable transportation to get them to work. The article also helps students understand how important the Wichita workers were to the successful completion of thousands of U.S. airplanes.
KS: 11th: 2.4.: understands the role of Kansas aviation companies in World War II
Item Number: 213777
Call Number: K 629.13, vol. 3, Aviation Clippings
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213777
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production
Collections - Library
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1930-1945 (Kansas_Benchmark 2) - Aviation companies in World War II (Indicator 4)
Date - 1940s - 1942
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Transportation - Air Travel - Military
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
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