There are four large images mounted on foam board hung from the ceiling of the exhibit (thank you Cheryl for your suggestion). They all deserve close inspection.

The Bendix radio compass ad depicts three B-17’s over the Atlantic at sunrise. They are shown between the U.S. and England, the Allied countries that flew much of what Plant 1 produced and whose bomber crews suffered casualty rates that were among the highest of all combat units in the war.

The Bendix MN-26 wiring ad shows a young woman who stands for hundreds of thousands of others employed in factories across the country during the war. The picture appears to be an artist’s impression of the wiring of a radio. In fact, the image was made from a Kodachrome transparency taken in the Bendix factory. The wiring is the bottom of the MN-26 radio compass (found elsewhere in the exhibit). Interestingly, the image was reversed left-to-right for use in the ad.

Argus Eyes radio references 1 and 2: These two boards full of Argus Eyes clippings include every wartime article mentioning Plant 1’s radio work in any way. Wartime security concerns clearly limited the inclusion of many specifics, but the handful of references that went un-censored (underlined in red) give an interesting picture of the nature of Plant 1’s wartime contributions. This is discussed in detail in the section on control box production.