North American

Organization

Staff Only

Historical Note

Manufacturer. Also known as: Rockwell; North American Aviation, Inc; NAA.

Places

Los Angeles (Calif.) (Residence)

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Margery Watson World War II Photographs

Collection — Folder 1

Identifier: 2017-01-05

Contents of the Collection The Margery Watson World War II Photographs is a small collection comprised of 31 photographs either taken or gathered by Margery Watson while she was employed at North American Aviation in Inglewood, California as a draftsperson between 1943-1945. The photographs are primarily small black-and-white snapshots that document NAA personnel adding a Merlin engine and performing engine tests on the prototype P-51 nicknamed "Baby" for United States Army Air Force ground crews. Some of the...

Dates: Circa 1940s

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Metz, Iva L. -- oral history interview, 2019 November 1

File

Interview Summary Iva Metz is interviewed about her life and her secretarial career in the aviation and aerospace industries from the 1940s through the 1980s. She discusses her professional experiences working for the U.S. Navy, the Cessna Aircraft Company, the Boeing Aircraft Company, and North American Aviation. The interview focuses in particular on her time at NASA and her involvement with the space program. Iva also touches on her husband’s (Homer) career in the military and with Boeing on various...

Dates: 2019 November 1

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / The Museum of Flight Oral History Collection