Title

Drilling horizontal stabilizers...this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville..., Tennessee, 1943. Creator: Alfred T Palmer.

Caption

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. 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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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A79_190

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154,7Mb (2,9Mb) / 27,9in x 21,5in / 8374 x 6456 (300dpi)

Keywords

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