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| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A publicity still of Fred MacMurray from "Dive Bomber" (WB, 1941) in which a crew member is adjusting the helmet of MacMurray's pressurized flight suit. Be... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air," (Warner Brothers 1935) in which Milwaukee-born Pat O'Brien appeared with Jimmy Cagney. In this production, ... |
| Date: | 02 1966 |
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| Description: | Arriving at a forward area, a U.S. Air Force CH-30 helicopter carrying a 105mm howitzer is directed in for a landing. The artillery piece, which was in a r... |
| Date: | 09 1977 |
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| Description: | The first class of female Air Force jet pilots posing with a supersonic T-38 Talon training aircraft at Randolph Air Force Base. Their training was part of... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Lester Maitland, who was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot from Milwaukee who served as aide to General Billy Mitchell during th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. ... |
| Date: | 08 1945 |
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| Description: | The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay held on Tinian Island after they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, B-29... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Vernon Castle, half of the glamorous Castle dancing team, enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and flew over 150 missions at the Western Fron... |
| Date: | 11 08 1956 |
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| Description: | The first F-102 jet arrives at Truax Field. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two Sopwith Camels, somewhere in France. This image is from the photo collection of Alvin Reis of Madison. He made many wartime photos into lantern slides ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Alvin C. Reis of Madison during his service in World War I. During the war, Reis commanded several observation balloon squadrons. Later, he b... |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Pilot Robert K. Knowles (second from left) of New Richmond, Wisconsin, and the crew of his B-24 bomber with an interrogating officer at Shipdham, England o... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Helicopter pilot Scott Alwin, a native of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, with his UH-1 ("Huey"). Alwin spent five tours of duty in Vietnam from 1967 to 1972, se... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joseph R. McCarthy in his Marine uniform, which appeared in his unsuccessful 1944 U.S. Senate campaign literature. Making the most of military ... |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Bong, Chief Justice Rosenberry, Mrs. Goodland, Governor Goodland, Marge Bong, Mr. Bong and Mr. Fred (president of the University of Wisconsin) await p... |
| 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: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle receives a last minute pre-jump inspection from the 5th Special Forces Group. |
| Date: | 07 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., turns around in his seat at the state fair to shake hands with three Civil Air Patrol cadets. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Instructor on the wing of a biplane talking with an airman trainee in the cockpit of a plane during flight training at Truax Field during World War II. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Airman trainee in cockpit of biplane with two flight instructors standing next to the plane at Truax Field during World War II. |
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