Not only was she California's first woman attorney, if you are today facing criminal charges and unable to afford a defense attorney, thank Clara Shortridge Foltz.
Circa 1942. Dora Miles and Dorothy Johnson assembling World War II bombers and transports in Long Beach for Douglas Aircraft Company. Approximately 65 percent of these workers were women. The Long Beach plant churned out 3,000 B-17 bombers by the end of World War II, almost a quarter of the more than 12,700 B-17s delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps. Vega Aircraft, a Lockheed subsidiary across town in Burbank, built another 2,750 B-17s. The two Los Angeles County plants, combined, built and delivered 45 percent of all B-17s flown in the war.
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