Pilot Warren R. Lewis greeted by Woodfin M. Sullivan upon his arrival at Tuy Hoa air base

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02585
Title: Pilot Warren R. Lewis greeted by Woodfin M. Sullivan upon his arrival at Tuy Hoa air base
Description: Original caption: "Tuy Hoa - Welcome to Tuy Hoa - Air Force Colonel Warren R. Lewis, (in cockpit) the 31st tactical fighter wing commander, of Spirit Lake, Iowa, is greeted by Colonel Woodfin M. Sullivan, 44, of Homestead, Fla., upon his arrival at Tuy Hoa air base with a squadron of F-100 Supersabres. The arrival of the 306th tactical fighter squadron boosted the new air bases strength to two squadrons and provides a considerable increase in air strike compatibility in the central portion of South Vietnam,. Colonel Sullivan is the wing's deputy commander for operations." A US airmen stands on a ladder and speaks to a pilot sitting in a cockpit.
Date: 1967, approximate
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Air Force; Airmen; Air pilots; F-100 (Jet fighter plane)
Location: Tuy HÃ²a, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 13.1057; 109.2950
Size: 20 x 25 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