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| Date: | 01 03 1951 |
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| Description: | A group of air force enlistees poses for a group portrait before departing from Madison for Milwaukee. They are part of the thirty-three who were accepted ... |
| Date: | 01 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Three brothers, part of the thirty-three enlistees accepted by the Madison Air Force recruiting station, posing near the office in the Federal building. Th... |
| Date: | 03 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Twenty-two year-old Danish immigrant, Neils Lassen, right, uses a globe map to point out his native Denmark to Major Roberts of the Madison Army and Air Fo... |
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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." |
| Date: | 10 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Tickets for the U.S. Air Force Band concert at the Orpheum Theater are presented to Madison Mayor Ivan Nestingen (left) by Colonel John H. Pease (right), B... |
| Date: | 10 19 1964 |
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| Description: | Hooded jet fighters on the Truax Field flight line that will be transferred to Peru, Indiana as the air defense activities at Truax Field in Madison are ph... |
| 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: | 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: | 10 14 1965 |
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| Description: | Sgt. Gerald Johnson is shown in front of a recruiting banner for the U.S. Air Force. |
| Date: | 05 14 1958 |
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| Description: | "Airman 2/C Don R. Roberts, Truax Field, is shown purchasing his portion of 'Share in America' — 15 U.S. $50 savings bonds. Roberts, a native of Wichita Fa... |
| 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: | 04 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Second-Class Airman Joseph Narajka stationed at Truax Field studies another exhibit at the show as he tells his friend, Nancy Zimmerman (who lived on 1010 ... |
| Date: | 10 19 1964 |
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| Description: | General Frederick Terrell addresses the planned phase-out of air defense activities at Truax Field over three and a half years. |
| Date: | 05 17 1958 |
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| Description: | The crowd at Truax Field watching the Armed Forces Day air show. |
| Date: | 10 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Lt. Col. Lassiter Thompson sits behind his desk at Truax Field. He is the newly appointed commander of the 61st Fighter Interceptor Squadron. |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | The Army Air Force "Chicagoans" Band, with five musicians playing their instruments on a stage decorated with banners, flags and Milwaukee Road logos for "... |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Marge Bong and General Kenney standing by a bust of Major Richard Ira Bong (1920-1945), at the Richard Bong Memorial dedication on Memorial Day. |
| Date: | 12 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Chief Warrant Officer Sam Gubner (left) is presented with a plaque upon retirement by Major John Pedigo, representing the men of the 432nd squadron at Trua... |
| Date: | 08 17 1946 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.C. Ferguson, pilot Major Woodrow Swancutt, and Dick Johnson standing in front of B-29 airplane, "Dave's Dream" at Truax Field. Major Swancutt, a Wi... |
| Date: | 05 10 1962 |
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| Description: | Members of the Air Force ROTC units marching into Camp Randall on a rainy day. Some 1,200 student cadets and midshipmen participated in a military review i... |
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