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Wisconsin Air National Guard
1954
A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion at Truax Field. Armaments for this fighter included two air-to-air rockets capable of being armed with nuclear warheads.
Clark Station
1962
Clark gasoline station near Brookfield, Wisconsin, which sold gasoline but not service work.
Loading Guns of F-51 Fighter Plane
circa 1950
Wisconsin Air National Guard. A man in a leather jacket and cap is loading (?) guns in wings of an F-51 fighter plane.
Refueling a Tri-Motor
1936
Refueling a Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Because gasoline truck hoses did not have pumps, airplanes were refueled by filling 5-gallon cans and then lifting the cans up to the fuel tank. The fuel was th...
