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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Beechcraft 18 in the former Air Force hangar at Truax Field. This photograph was taken shortly after Wisconsin Central Airlines moved its headquarters fr... |
| 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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A British soldier directs the truck driver as German workers prepare to load a shipment of coal on a U.S. Air Force C-54 airplane at Fassberg Airfield. Fro... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The reason for the official name for the Berlin Airlift, "Operation Skytrain," is suggested by this photograph of C-47 transport airplanes unloading at Tem... |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Pvt. Tom Voigt, Ixonia (at right), one of forty-seven "Operation Badger" Air Force recruits sworn in at Madison, shakes hands with his father, Ray Voigt (r... |
| Date: | 05 18 1953 |
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| Description: | At Truax Field, Lieutenant H.B. Smith adjusts a parachute on Lillian Nitcher, one of a group of eighteen area women who were selected to make an official A... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Three men of the Air Force Red Horse heavy repair squad make adjustments to the runway at Phan Rang, a South Vietnam airbase. An International pay scraper ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A man directs International pay scrapers along a runway at Phan Rang air force base in Vietnam. |
| Date: | 06 1965 |
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| Description: | Side view of a Navy plane marked with "8376" and squadron number "VF-161" on a tarmac at Miramar Naval Air Station. Written on the photograph in grease pen... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This map shows a plat of the city, local streets, railroads, public buildings, local businesses, and parts of the Manitowoc River and Lake Michigan. Relief... |
| Date: | 03 05 1965 |
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| Description: | View across road towards a one-story building with three cars parked in front near the corner of E. Washington Avenue and N. Stoughton Road. The building w... |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Edward C. Waffle, in charge of the tower for the Air Force, is talking with a pilot from the Truax Field control tower by speaking into a handheld radio tr... |
| Date: | 07 04 1960 |
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| Description: | General Nathan F. Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957-1960), arrives at Truax Field on his way to visit his hometown of Monroe on the 4th ... |
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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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