Aerial photo of bombed Cu Van petroleum storage area

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02672
Title: Aerial photo of bombed Cu Van petroleum storage area
Description: Original caption: "Saigon - Bombs Destroy Pol Area - Dark orange fireballs sent black smoke rising to 5,000 feet following a strike by Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots from the the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing Oct. 7 on the Cu Van petroleum, oils and lubricants storage area, 43 miles north of Hanoi. The storage area, which was located on the side of the hill was destroyed." Aerial photograph of a bombing in a rural hilly area.
Date: 1967, approximate
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Aerial photography; Landscapes; Aerial reconnaissance; United States. Air Force; Bombing, Aerial; Petroleum--Storage; Thunderchief (Jet fighter plane)
Location: Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6297
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