Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Landing gear installation. This woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before installation of the landing gear. This is one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass production of Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers. 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 single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers
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Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1943
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Nashville (Tenn.), 36.16583, -86.78444
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain