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Self-sealing fuel tanks. The heavy paper building forms for bullet-sealing fuel tanks must be covered with cloth. Women are doing a large portion of the work in turning out these tanks. This girl is applying a sealing strip to the edges of the building form to keep the cloth taut. Goodrich

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Tail cone sub-assembly. In this scene one girl is operating a rivet gun as another girl bucks the rivets in the tail cone sub-assembly, a fabrication operation in the manufacture of the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. 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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Self-sealing fuel tanks. The heavy paper building forms for bullet-sealing fuel tanks must be covered with cloth. Women are doing a large portion of the work in turning out these tanks. This girl is applying a sealing strip to the edges of the building form to keep the cloth taut. Goodrich

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Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Location

Akron (Ohio), 41.08139, -81.51889

Google Map of 41.081388888888895, -81.51888888888888

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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Public Domain