Building a Bomber: The Martin B-26 Marauder 1945
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- See production of a World War 2 Martin B-26 medium bomber from metal casting through final assembly. Set at the Martin aircraft plant in Marietta Georgia. Get this video and three more on our "B-26 Marauders Go to War" DVD. bit.ly/1khIkMl
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Mom worked on the B 26 at Martins during the war, she was a Rosie the riveter. What the greatest generation did could never be duplicated. This was a film from 1941 so it did not show all the women that worked building the planes. We owe them so much. Now her grandson is in the reserves stationed at Martins, Middle River MD.
I don’t believe that this is in Marietta, GA but actually Middle River, MD. I currently work at an old Glenn L. Martin plant in Middle River where B-26’s were assembled in “C” building of the plant. The building in this video looks exactly like “C” building in Middle River. Also the old “H” building, “H” for hammer, housed the old drop hammers and the foundry the building structure is identical to the building in the video. Some of the smaller hammers were in use up to ten years ago until we ceased sheet metal operations and are now using composite materials for our thrust reversers and nacelle programs.
Thomas Cosden i agree,i grew up in that area and my grandfather worked there 35+ yrs beginning during WW2. He worked the 100 ton drop press...im told that machine is still there due to its size.
The shortage of Curtis Electric Propellers caused a back up of production as can be seen. A shortage of many components was cured as soon as 1942 got going. Many of these aircraft went to the Pacific to do great service until the type was sent to Europe. B-26 to Great Britain and B-25 to Pacific. Ironically a "Secret Bomb Sight" was captured in 1942 by the German Military as a result of a lost bomber crew who crash landed their B-26 on the Dutch Coast very carefully so it could be recovered and used. And it was....by the Luftwaffe. BUT...they were never able to acquire enough propeller blades to test fly the ship. It was scrapped after the war with all the other B-26's by German POW personnel. Few types survived the post war era. The Martin B-26 was not among them as it was a short range, gas hog with a bad reputation among pilots who were just kids .
Back in 1973 I hired into a firm called Nordco Products out of Van Nuys CA. We made aircraft ground support equipment but the parent company (Nordskog Group) made aircraft galleys (and were very good at it). The galley fabrication side was always trying to introduce some technique using a jig or some other way to go into "high production". Went by the old plants a year or so ago. Everything was sold off just a few years after Bob Nordskog passed away. Great company to work for. We never needed a union. First Arab oil embargo really hurt us. Being 1973 the plant was half full of WWII vets. Out of 100 or so men on my side 5-10 were Vietnam vets, not very many.
Its amazing the lack of safety equipment back then!!!!
Jeff Burns but...asbestos protection!
I said the same thing. I was in the Navy for 24 years and still work for the DoD in aviation. You wouldn't get away with that kinda stuff today. Didn't hurt production though. My favorite medium bomber too.
Interesting video from days gone by and a pretty good restoration job too. The B-26 was a fine aircraft.........
I thought corsairs and b-26's used spot welding on the fuselages!
They grabbed the metal foils with bare hands
"Fatigue factor," yeah, especially critical working around those punch presses and metal cutting machines.
3:37 Safety glasses? We don't need no stinking safety glasses.
When I started in aviation safety glasses weren't a big deal or Safety Shoes or a badge when I started they gave you a card the size of a driver's license and they took a picture with a Polaroid camera
Fantastic film
Yes, this particular film is fairly intimate with the workers and the conditions that prevailed during the war. I note the relative youth of these folks which changed somewhat over time to more mature aged workers,
Not one of these workmen wears a single piece of protective equipment. A different era indeed compared to what's suggested nowadays when using a quarter-inch drill to put a hole in a piece of balsa!
Asbestos protective equipment lol
Back when America actually had industry and the millions of good paying jobs that went with it. Now we send our raw materials overseas to be processed and it's still cheaper than if it had been produced domestically.
I grew up in the WW2 era and have watched an evolving of the work forces in and around Wichita for decades. These were the kinds of jobs that would wreck a man or woman over time and now we see the toll it has taken over the work force over the years with degrading ailments related to the intensity and monotony. Of course, not all to blame on the companies but of workers who've taken shoddy care of themselves over time.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Thanks. The handle of 'whalesong' was the doing of my late wife and I've preferred to keep it.
Not one of these workmen wears a single piece of protective equipment. A different era indeed compared to what's suggested nowadays when using a quarter-inch drill to put a hole in piece of balsa!
The "Widow Maker" was quite an airplane. Don't think any are left flying today.
barrybmlv...correct! One static example at Fantasy of Flight in Florida. One static in Free French markings at Normandy, and 200-mission veteran (highest number of any WW2 bomber)
...called “Flack-Bait” is being preserved at Smithsonian Air & Space. Complete preservation expected finished in early 2020’s.
barrybmlv There’s actually 6 left.... only one capable of flight....
Don't forget that there's one at the USAF Museum in Dayton.
@@riproar11 In 1969, I helped repair that A-26 at Nakom Phanom , RTAFB Thailand. Structural Repair 56 Field Maintenance .
Very interesting to see how it was done before the mighty computer arrived
It looks like the production date on this film is 1941.
Definitely pre-Pearl Harbor: note the red "meat ball" still in the center of the white star on the national insignia. Also note the all-male production line workforce -- and young men at that. If this had been made a year or two later, the work force would have been predominately female! Rosie was waiting for the call!
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Baltimore!!!!
Filming a WW2 production on a WW1 camera.
The guy is wearing asbestos clothing for "protection" while breathing noxious gasses at the foundry
Usaf wanted more and did rebuild 70
I wonder why they installed "bald" tires on these airplanes. Most photos and films that I've seen of World War II had treaded tires.
Bombarder?
Let it go..
What ever else WWII was it put America to work.
Bombbarder???...Oh yeah, I know.....
hello. My name is Mitch and I am the co host of ScubaNation on Fox
Sports. We are doing an episode on a missing B-26 that they found in the
gulf of Mexico in 2008 and we just made an underwater memorial for the
find. I would like to use some vintage clips of the B-26 in the show
and was wondering if you knew who I could get in contact with. You can
reach me at bm@scubanation.com. Thanks!
Asbestos clothing. Nice.
german seeing this: SON DON'T WATCH THAT
usa watching german bombers being made during ww2: SON DON'T WATCH THAT
Were the men wear asbestos clothing I don't think that would be happening today