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| Date: | 05 08 1912 |
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| Description: | License #121 issued to John Kaminski in 1912 by the Aero Club of America. |
| Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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| Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
| Date: | 07 21 1921 |
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| Description: | One of the most important moments in the history of American aviation - the sinking of the captured German battleship "Ostfriesland" by American bombers of... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | The first dirigible purchased by the U.S. Army and its builder, Thomas A. Baldwin. |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | A training ascension of a captive observation balloon. During their training, soldiers learned how to correctly estimate the effectiveness of artillery on ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The gondola crew of a World War I observation balloon that is about to ascend. Observation balloons were positioned near the front so that men in the gondo... |
| Date: | 04 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Infantry troops of the 8th Army preparing to board a Bell UH-1D helicopter of the 6th Transportation Helicopter Company for transport to the front. |
| Date: | 02 1966 |
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| Description: | Arriving at a forward area, a U.S. Air Force CH-30 helicopter carrying a 105mm howitzer is directed in for a landing. The artillery piece, which was in a r... |
| Date: | 01 1953 |
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| Description: | Infantry troops board helicopters for Korea via the 6th Transportation Helicopter Company, the first Army cargo helicopter unit in the combat zone. The 6th... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Little boys watch the arrival of a helicopter over Binh Mung village in Vietnam. |
| Date: | 01 03 1945 |
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| Description: | An ambulatory trainer which permits blind flying by instrument instruction by the Civil Air Patrol. Capt. E.D. Stanley is giving instructions given by tele... |
| Date: | 01 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Sgt. Lois Burmeister at the controls of an ambulatory trainer which permits blind flying by instrument instruction by the Civil Air Patrol. |
| Date: | 04 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Camp Douglas with Volk Field in the background. |
| Date: | 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Men and women stand on either side of a street to watch an International truck used as a float for the Naval Air Tech Training Center as part of a Navy Day... |
| Date: | 06 1965 |
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| Description: | Three men stand alongside a tarmac as a Phantom II Naval plane takes off at Miramar Naval Air Station. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of four U.S. Marine helicopters banking over an expanse of rice paddies in Vietnam. Fluffy white clouds fill the sky. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of flock of U.S. Marine helicopters in the sky over Vietnam. One of the dark green and yellow helicopters is in the foreground. Four others tra... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | View of a Phantom II jet from above, possibly taken with infrared film. The text on the wing reads, "USAF." |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Photograph of the Phantom II jet silhouetted against what appears to be the surface of the moon. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | United States government bonds poster in the Fourth Liberty Loan "B" series. "Buy Liberty Bonds. Fourth Liberty Loan." Depicts enemy aircraft bombing New Y... |
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