Ground Proximity Extraction System cargo delivery

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02683
Title: Ground Proximity Extraction System cargo delivery
Description: Original caption: "Da Nang - Cargo Delivery - The trailing hook of a C-130 Hercules cargo load catches on the arresting cable that stretches across the Khe Sanh runway. The new cargo delivery technique, called Ground Proximity Extraction System, decreases the aircrafts exposure time to hostile fire." An American airplane flying very close to the ground drops supplies from its rear hatch. The supplies are mid-air, falling to the ground.
Date: 1967, approximate
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Soldiers; Airdrop; Military supplies; Hercules (Turboprop transports); Airplanes; United States. Air Force; Air bases
Location: Da Nang, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 16.0545; 108.0717
Size: 20 x 25 cm
Container: B146, F4
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Air Force
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher: Archives & Special Collections