William F. Losch Jr. went to work for the Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica California after his 1940 graduation from Washington State College. An engineer assigned to Douglas' Production Engineering Group, Losch became involved with fuselage production for the C-47 at the company's Long Beach plant.
Thomas A. Rommel (c1917-1982) lived in Seattle after graduating from Washington State College and worked for the Boeing Company.
Douglas Aircraft Company was founded by aviator Donald Wills Douglas in Santa Monica, California in 1921. The company built many commercial airliners, among them the legendary DC-3, the larger DC-6 and DC-7, and the turbine-powered DC-8. Douglas also built large numbers of military aircraft, among them an adaptation of the DC-3 known as the C-47. In 1967 Douglas merged with the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to form McDonnell Douglas, which was acquired by Boeing thirty years later.
From the description of William F. Losch, Jr. Douglas Aircraft letters, 1941. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 636028442
