Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Spark-plug installation. Workers are installing spark plugs in the powerful Wright "double cyclone" engine used in the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville Division. Note the partially completed "Vengeance" in the background. 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
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1510.
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Date
01/01/1943
Location
davidson county
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain