Worker Drills Vengeance Bomber Horizontal Stabilizer

Operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee’s Nashville plant is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee “Vengeance” dive bomber. The “Vengeance” (A-31) was originally designed for the French, and 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. February 1943.

Photo size: 3000 × 2316
Photo source: Library of Congress
Usage: Public Domain