Production: A-31 ("Vengeance") Dive Bombers. Layout for control rods. One of the women employees at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft, Inc. is pictured inside a tail cone which will be incorporated in a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. She is checking the layout for control rods. 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.
| Artist | Alfred T. Palmer (American, 1906–1993) |
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| Title | Production: A-31 ("Vengeance") Dive Bombers. Layout for control rods. One of the women employees at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft, Inc. is pictured inside a tail cone which will be incorporated in a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. She is checking the layout for control rods. 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. |
| Date | February 1943 |
| Medium | Gelatin silver print |
| Dimensions | Image: 9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in. (24.1 × 19.2 cm) Sheet: 10 × 8 3/16 in. (25.4 × 20.8 cm) |
| Credit Line | Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 79.200.XX.10.16 |
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A vertical black-and-white photograph depicts a young, light-skinned woman tightening a screw within the body of an aircraft. She crouches within a small, oval-shaped opening wearing a dark, short-sleeve, collared work shirt, denim trousers, white ankle socks, and laced shoes. She crouches at the center of the composition; the riveted interior of the aircraft extends towards the camera all around the central oval-shaped opening.
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"Production: A-31 ("Vengeance") Dive Bombers. Layout for control rods. One of the women employees at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft, Inc. is pictured inside a tail cone which will be incorporated in a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. She is checking the layout for control rods. 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. | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.XX.10.16