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Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 127 favorites
- 80,394 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
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- 68,681 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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United Nations exhibit by OWI at Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Close-up of photographic display and seals of the nations (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 27 favorites
- 68,493 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Here's our mission. A combat crew receives final instructions just before taking off in a mighty YB-17 bomber from a bombardment squadron base at the field, Langley Field, Va. (LOC)
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- 12 comments
- 124 favorites
- 47,961 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Ens[ign] Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 92 favorites
- 42,464 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Ensign Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 71 favorites
- 40,313 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 18 favorites
- 34,546 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine Corps gliders being towed from Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 13 favorites
- 26,934 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 18 favorites
- 26,817 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 11 favorites
- 26,350 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine lieutenant, glider pilot in training, ready for take-off at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. Power towing plane in background (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 11 favorites
- 25,534 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine Corps gliders being towed from Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 9 favorites
- 24,795 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Field, S.C. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 14 favorites
- 24,413 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine glider at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 9 favorites
- 24,139 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine Corps gliders in flight out of Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 9 favorites
- 23,509 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine gliders being towed from Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 19 favorites
- 22,734 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine lieutenants, glider pilots in training at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 5 favorites
- 22,138 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Al Welsh & G.W. Beatty (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 10 favorites
- 14,245 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Blanche Scott (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 41 favorites
- 11,075 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-24
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N.Y. Nat. G'd. Aviation Camp (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 7 favorites
- 8,762 views
- Date taken: 1915
- Date uploaded: 2014-02-28
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Glenn Curtiss; Lieuts; Park; Goodier; McLeary; Brereton, 12/4/12 (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 3 favorites
- 8,580 views
- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2008-05-02
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M. Wodarczyk, Capt. H.D. Campbell, Capt. R.A. Presley, Maj. E. Ross Rowell (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 13 favorites
- 5,005 views
- Date taken: 1900
- Date uploaded: 2023-08-25
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