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U.S. Air Force Sgt. Robert D. Gray guides a 308th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 31st Tactical Fighter Wing, North American F-100D-90-NA Super Sabre aircraft (s/n 56-3287) at Tuy Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, in late 1967. Pilots of the 31st TFW flew 23,069 sorties since deploying to Vietnam in November 1966 and the time the picture was taken.
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UH-1D helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment from the Filhol Rubber Plantation area to a new staging area, during Operation "Wahiawa," a search and destroy mission conducted by the 25th Infantry Division, northeast of Cu Chi, 1966.
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A U.S. Navy Lockheed T2V-1 Seastar of the Naval Air Test Center at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland (USA), makes its first carrier landing on the training carrier USS Antietam (CVS-36), on 7 October 1957. Note that the 12.7 cm guns from the aft turret of Antietam have been removed.
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U.S. Navy flight deck crewmen perform a preflight check on a Douglas KA-3B Skywarrior (BuNo 147995) of U.S. Naval Reserve aerial refueling squadron VAK-208 Jockeys aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) on 15 September 1985. The Douglas A-3B 147665 was converted to an KA-3B in June 1967, to an EKA-3B in July 1967, and back to an KA-3B in February 1976. The plane finally crashed into Pyramid Lake, Nevada (USA), during night low level mission in January 1987, killing the crew of 3.
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A U.S. Navy Grumman AF-2W Guardian of anti-submarine squadron VS-931 on the deck of the light aircraft carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29), circa 1951. The squadron had been established as U.S. Naval Reserve composite squadron VC-931 in 1948. It was activated as VS-931 on 1 March 1951 and redesignated VS-20 on 4 February 1953. It was already disestablished again in 1957.
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Three U.S. Naval Reserve Grumman SF-1s assigned to Naval Reserve Air Base Anacostia, Washington D.C. (USA), in 1937. Note the Naval Air Resereve insignia on the fuselage forward of the cockpit.
Notes: "The scout version of the Grumman FF-1 fighter, the SF-1 differed from its predecessor in reduced armament and an increased fuel capacity. Powered by a Wright R-1820-84, the SF-1 entered service in Spring 1934, and eventually served in six squadrons. Quickly outclassed by other designs, the SF-1s spent their remaining years in the hands of reserve pilots.
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U.S. Navy Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo fighters pictured during a training flight from Naval Air Station (NAS) Miami, Florida (USA), 1941-1942.
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A U.S. Navy Martin SP-5B Marlin (BuNo. 135533) of partol squadron VP-40 Fighting Marlins landing after its last operational flight in San Diego Bay on 6 November 1967. It is now on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida (USA).
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Rough field operations caused difficult working conditions for 9th Air Force maintenance personnel. Here a crew prepares to use an external heater to warm a P-38’s frozen engine so it can be started while an armorer works on the guns in the nose while atop a makeshift stand.
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A Douglas TBD-1 Devastator (BuNo 0308) from U.S. torpedo squadron VT-8, No. T-5, taxiing up the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), circa 15 May 1942. This aircraft has already been equipped with twin .30 cal rear mount and is carrying a live torpedo. It was lost on 4 June 1942 with its crew LT(jg) Jeff Davis Woodson and Otway David Creasy, Jr., ARM2c.
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P-40s on the flight line in the Pacific during World war II. By mid-1943, the USAAF was phasing out the P-40F (pictured); the two nearest aircraft, "White 116" and "White 111" were flown by the aces 1Lt Henry E. Matson and 1Lt Jack Bade, 44th FS, at the time part of AirSols, on Guadalcanal.
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A North American PBJ-1D Mitchell bomber of U.S. Marine Corps bombing squadron VMB-611 spotted on the deck of the escort carrier USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) during transport of the squadron's flight echelon to its operating area in the Pacific, August 1944.
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Lockheed F=80 with twin 12.7mm machineguns in oblique mount, similar to WW2 German 'schraege muzik' mount, to test ability to attack bombers from below.
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This World War II photograph shows future Astronaut Donald "Deke" K. Slayton (on right) and 1st Lt. Ed Steinman (on left) beside a Douglas A-26 bomber in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the summer of 1945. While the exact location is unknown, the photograph was most likely taken on Okinawa. 1st Lt. Slayton was one of only two NASA astronauts to fly combat missions during World War II.
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