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The Douglas Aircraft Company, headquartered in Santa Monica, California, operated the Tulsa facility. During World War II it produced A-24 Dauntless dive bombers, B-24 Liberator strategic bombers, and A-26 Invader medium bombers.
East of Oklahoma City (now part of Midwest City), men and women built cargo aircraft used to transport soldiers, equipment, and supplies throughout Europe and the Pacific. in addition to helping launch Okla-homa’s modern aviation industry, aircraft plants in Tulsa and Midwest City brought lasting economic and social change.
The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant constructed more than half of the ten thousand C-47 Skytrain U.S. Army cargo planes (nicknamed "Gooney Birds") manufactured during World War II.
The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace and defense company based in Southern California. Founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr., it merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas, where it operated as a division. McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in 1997.
Article describes the history of military aircraft construction in Oklahoma during World War II, focusing on two Douglas Aircraft plants in Tulsa and Midwest City and the communities surrounding them.
Tulsa-based Manhattan Construction Company completed more than a billion dollars in hangers, barracks, aircraft plants, and other military building projects during the war. Faced with a national emergency, the company finished jobs in a fraction of the peacetime building pace.
Mar 25, 2007 · Dorothy Dollarhite was a wide-eyed teenager from Idabel when she walked into the Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. The bomber plant's 1.6 million square feet, buzzing with activity during...
