Photograph of a control tower on top of a concrete hangar at Komaki Air Base, Japan, March 1947. A fire truck is parked inside the hangar.Inscription on verso: "Komaki Base control tower atop hangar revetment – Komaki, Japan. Fire truck underneath.…
Photograph of Corporal Morisako, a clerk for the 158th Liaison Squadron, standing near a row of vehicles in Nagoya, Japan, February 4, 1947.Typed caption on verso: "Cpl. Morisako, clerk in Hdq., 158th Liaison Squadron, caught 'off guard' in front of…
Photograph of military personnel working on a crashed Lockheed C-130 Hercules (tail number 7875) at an airfield in South Vietnam, circa May 1968. Several water trucks and other vehicles are parked around the plane, and black smoke billows from the…
Photograph of a Stinson L-5 Sentinel aircraft crashed upside down on a beach near Nagoya, Japan, August 1947. The plane bears United States Army Air Forces markings.Inscription on verso: "The L-5 the Infantry cracked up in the river bottom. Nagoya,…
Photograph of a crumpled C-2 ejection seat following a test, March 10, 1967.
Caption: "67-312-E. Run 4E-F1. 10 Mar 67. UNCL. Land-Air."
Inscription on verso: “C-2 seat program D-7."
Photograph of a crumpled C-2 ejection seat following a test, March 10, 1967.
Caption: "67-312-D. Run 4E-F1. 10 Mar 67. UNCL. Land-Air."
Inscription on verso: "C-2 seat program D-7."
In this two-part oral history, fighter ace Curran L. Jones discusses his military service with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. In part two, he provides clarifying details regarding his wartime experiences and the combat mission…
DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) issued by the United States Air Force to Norman G. Stromer, October 31, 1960. One typed page.