Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling horizontal stabilizers. Creating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. 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
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Date
01/01/1943
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Nashville (Tenn.)
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36.16583, -86.78444
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