Bomb loading on Air Force A-1E Skyraider

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02577
Title: Bomb loading on Air Force A-1E Skyraider
Description: Original caption: "Nha Trang - Bomb Loading - The last operation in an Air Force A-1E Skyraiders combat turn-around is reloading it with weapons for the next mission. Here, an armament loading crew consisting of A.2.C. Stephan S. Jager of Albuquerque, NM; S. Sgt. Fred D. Laster of Cabot, Ark., crew chief; and S. Sgt. Frederic H. Dearns of Phoenix, Ariz., hand 260-pound bombs. Loading takes place only after all maintenance has been performed and the aircraft declared ready for its next mission." Two US airmen loading missiles onto the wing of an aircraft. More missiles sit in the foreground.
Date: 1967, approximate
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Air Force; Skyraider (Attack plane); Airmen; Bombing, Aerial; Projectiles, Aerial
Location: Nha Trang, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 12.2388; 109.1967
Size: 15 x 22 cm
Container: B146, F3
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