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B-29 Bomber Landing

Date: 03 1945
Description: A B-29 bomber plane landing at North Field in Guam after its first fire raid on Tokyo. A tree is in the center foreground with three men sitting around it ...
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Waiting at Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: A small group of refugees wait with luggage under an awning at Luang Prabang airport, Laos. An armed soldier stands behind them on the right. There is a tr...
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Helicopter at Refueling Area, Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: Helicopter and soldiers at the refueling area, Luang Prabang Airport, Laos. Soldiers stand next to the helicopter on the dirt landing surface. Others are w...
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Woman and Mules on Airstrip

Date: 1961
Description: A woman leads a mule laden with bundles across the airstrip at the village of Keukacham, Laos. A young mule follows. In the background at the base of a hil...
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Shaplen Arrives

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Description: Robert Shaplen, the tall man with the briefcase, being greeted at an airport in Southeast Asia. Shaplen, who was regarded as the dean of the American journ...
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Arrival at Barbados Airport

Date: 1969
Description: Three travelers stand at the pickup location for gate 4 at the Barbados Airport. On the back of the photograph they are identified as "Jim Hoge (editor of ...
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International Harvester Scout with Lift Platform

Date: 1970
Description: International Harvester Scout with a lift platform at an airport. A man is standing on the platform to inspect the tail of a Pan American World Airways Boe...
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Ozark Air Line Desk

Date: 06 01 1959
Description: Stanley Cobane, manager for Ozark Air Lines, stands at the service desk with his wife Joyce Cobane. Ozark Air Lines was the third airline to provide servic...
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New York Governor Visit

Date: 12 15 1959
Description: New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is greeted by two former governors of Wisconsin at the Madison Municipal Airport. The potential presidential candidate...
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Louis P. Lochner and Al Steinkopf

Date: 1945
Description: A.P Correspondent Lochner and his colleague of the pre-war Berlin Bureau, Al Steinkopf, meet at the battered airport of Aachen, Germany.
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White I-30 Tractor Pulling Ford Tri-Motor Airplane

Date: 07 05 1933
Description: Crew preparing to pull a damaged Ford Tri-Motor airplane with a white McCormick-Deering I-30 industrial tractor with dual rear wheels at the American Air R...
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Mitchell Airport Farewell

Date: 06 1963
Description: Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro...
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Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 06 13 1965
Description: This new baggage handling area was among the improvements in the new passenger terminal at Austrin Staubel Airport in 1965. Austin Straubel became the coun...
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Lake Delton Airport Owner, Manager and Son

Date: 04 09 1931
Description: Group portrait of three men: the Lake Delton airport owner, likely William J. Newman (center), manager and son standing in front of the prop of an airplane...
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Directing a Movie

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Eight people are standing in front of an Oakland automobile and airplane, and four more...
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International K -2 Special Coach Truck and Airplane

Date: 1949
Description: View towards men in an International KB-2 truck, with a special coach type panel body owned by United Air Lines, parked in front of a United passenger airp...
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Kennedy Campaigning in Wisconsin

Date: 10 23 1960
Description: Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy at the Madison airport with state Democratic leaders. To Kennedy's left are Governor Gaylord Nelson and state Democr...
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International Truck with Flight Staff

Date: 1939
Description: A flight attendant and pilots stand at the portable setps to a TWA plane. An International D-15 truck used by TWA is parked nearby. The original caption re...
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Churchill and Leahy

Date: 02 10 1946
Description: Admiral William D. Leahy, the personal representative of President Truman, greets former Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Washington D.C. airport. L...
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Truax Field Commander Returns from Korea

Date: 09 06 1953
Description: Colonel Collins H. Ferris stands beside his wife as he is greeted at the Madison airport upon returning from Japan. He was the commander at Truax Field fro...

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