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About: Header Images

Mike Evans, a Welder

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
Jack Delano, photographer,
1943.

Source on the Web

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Production A-31 (“Vengeance”) Dive Bombers

Production A-31 (“Vengeance”) dive bombers. Checking part to blueprint. Here a pair of factory workers check the blueprint with a part which will go into the “Vengeance” dive bombers made at Vultee’s Nashville Division. The “Vengeance” (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force).
Alfred T. Palmer, photographer,
1943.

Source on the Web

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress