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• Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Standing left to right alongside of Bell XS-1 are: Captain Charles E. Yeager, Major Gus Lundquist and Captain James Fitzgerald (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1947
  • Date uploaded: 2023-09-15
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• C.J. Edwards, J.C. Eberhardt, Wm. Hammer, R.J. Collier (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2009-04-03
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