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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell posing next to an airplane wearing flight gear. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | John Kaminski of Milwaukee in his World War I pilot's uniform. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell in the cockpit of his airplane. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
| Date: | 01 31 1971 |
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| Description: | View of the cockpit as Lt. Col. Joseph Bourassa and co-pilot Leonard Dereszynski of the 440th Tactical Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve at General Mit... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A publicity still of Fred MacMurray from "Dive Bomber" (WB, 1941) in which a crew member is adjusting the helmet of MacMurray's pressurized flight suit. Be... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, a Marine intelligence officer, interviewing pilots who have just returned from raids on Japanese installations in the Solomon I... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle receives a last minute pre-jump inspection from the 5th Special Forces Group. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Instructor on the wing of a biplane talking with an airman trainee in the cockpit of a plane during flight training at Truax Field during World War II. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Airman trainee in cockpit of biplane with two flight instructors standing next to the plane at Truax Field during World War II. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, in a helmet and goggles, poses next to another pilot in front of an airplane. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Josh Sanford sitting in an airplane during WWII. Joshua was the child of a Ho-Chunk mother and Seneca Father. Sanford served in the Army Air Co... |
| Date: | 08 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Truax Field pilots practicing water survival techniques in Lake Mendota near Warner Beach. The pilots, members of the 325 Fighter Interceptor Squadron, wer... |
| Date: | 08 05 1964 |
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| Description: | Truax Field pilots practicing water survival techniques in Lake Mendota near Warner Beach. The pilots, members of the 325 Fighter Interceptor Squadron, wer... |
| Date: | 08 05 1964 |
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| Description: | Truax Field pilots practicing water survival techniques in Lake Mendota near Warner Beach. The pilots, members of the 325 Fighter Interceptor Squadron, wer... |
| Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Air Guard Lt. Dan Torphy preparing for a training flight from Truax Field by putting on a Mae West life preserver over his flight suit. He is being helped ... |
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| Description: | A pilot in flight suit poses next to an F-86D Sabre jet fighter. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. Truax Airport. Pilot about to climb into a jet fighter." |
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