This image, captured by Dorothea Lange in October 1933 near Fresno, California, features bilingual employment signs in Spanish and English for employment at Hotchkiss Ranch. The signs attempt to entice workers with free rent, good houses, electric lights, and a school and store on the ranch. There were 15,000 acres in cultivation and 10,000 acres of that were cotton.
USAAF Boeing B-29 “waist gunner” watches for enemy fighters while on a bombing mission to Japan - June 1944
The B-29 waist gunners viewed their fields of fire through glass blisters, the .50-cal machine guns were mounted in external turrets and were remote controlled.
The gunners aimed by using an interior machine gun-like pedestal with handles to control an aiming crosshair. This pedestal was linked to the gun turrets via an analogue computer that took the crosshair aiming point as input and adjusted the turret guns' aiming point for target size and speed, wind velocity, and other characteristics.
LIFE Magazine Archives - Bernard Hoffman Photographer
