Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. Scrap pile being sorted at Vultee's Downey, Calif. plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.

Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. Scrap pile being sorted at Vultee's Downey, Calif. plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.

Photograph

Alfred T. Palmer

Maker
American, 1906–1993

Office of War Information

American, 1942–1945

Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. Scrap pile being sorted at Vultee's Downey, Calif. plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.

1942-43
Gelatin silver print
24.1 x 19.3 cm.
Purchase with funds from the Charina Foundation
2000.0789.0007
Inscriptions print verso-(mimeographed) "Production: BT-13A ('Valiant') Basic
Trainers" "D-9542 Scrap metal being sorted at Vultee's Downey, Calif.
plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A 'Valiant' basic trainer-
a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine. Please
Credit: Official OWI Photo By Palmer"
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publishing this picture provided credit line 'Photo From Office of War
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