Final Assembly

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First Edition. This novel portrays the daily lives of workers at a WW2 aircraft plant. The jacket copy describes the author as himself an aircraft worker; given the local nature of the production, we would surmise he was a Pennsylvanian living in the Lehigh Valley region, and probably plied his trade at the Consolidated-Vultee manufacturing facility in Allentown (site of manufacture of the TBU-1 Torpedo Bomber).

Edmund Harry Leftwich. 
Final Assembly.
Catasauque, Penna.: Dispatch Press, [1944].

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10663712 

If you're interested in learning more about the historical events that inspired this novel, please refer to the links below:

"The Vultee Aircraft Company" from the Western Museum of Flight, 2020.

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