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Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Installing landing gear on wing parts in a sub-assembly section

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Installing landing gear on wing parts in a sub-assembly section

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Installing landing gear on wing parts in a sub-assembly section

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Installing landing gear on wing parts in a sub-assembly section

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Installing landing gear on wing parts in a sub-assembly section

A black and white photo of two men on a ladder. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a plane. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man giving a boy something. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman sitting on a plane. Office of War Information Photograph

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Installing landing gear on wing parts in a sub-assembly section

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01/01/1942
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Delano, Jack, photographer
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Nashville (Tenn.) ,  36.16583, -86.78444
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Nashville, Tennessee. Drop hammer operator stamping out parts for Vultee bombers

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Known as the P4Y Flying Boat, this new ship is said to be the fastest patrol plane in the Navy. A product of the newly-formed Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Company, it combines all of the latest combat developments

A huge rubber tire is mounted on the landing gear strut of a North American B-25 before it moves to the final assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. In the engine installation section

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. This man went from Nashville to Ohio to get a defense job. Though manpower was being eagerly sought, he was told he must wait sixty days before going to work, so not being able to afford it, he is returning to Nashville. He said he didn't think he had left a defense job. He was a street cleaner in Nashville

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Checking part to blueprint. Here a pair of factory workers check the blueprint with a part which will go into the "Vengeance" dive bombers made at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Workers at the shop of Wilbarger and Sons, Harrisonburg, Virginia, are doing away with the overhead belt system of operating their machines. Delays are too frequent and they will not brook delays in war production. The machines are being converted to direct gear transmission

Steel mill equipment. Steel, steel...more steel is the cry as our industrial program of production goes into high gear to meet the expanding needs of the war program. This master machinist lays out on the raw stock some of the many parts required to keep out steel mill equipment up to its tasks. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

A black and white photo of two men in a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Union Station Train Shed, Water Street, opposite Lee Street, Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL

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