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Military Meetings and Operations

Historic military leaders converse near aircraft, logistics activities like fueling planes, and local efforts during conflicts depict military operations from various eras.

1910s - The US Army establishes an air mail service during Wilson's administration, and the signal corps invents the telegraph (narrated in 1934).
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The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls operating the height and range finder. The Section Leader is reading the height.
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Getasan at Kopg. An Indonesian man in uniform speaks in a microphone. November 21, 1947. Getasan, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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President Kennedy watches the 4th Americas Cup Race. President John F. Kennedy (seated at left) watches the fourth race of the 1962 Americas Cup from aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Also pictured: Harold S. Vanderbilt; Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Steve Smith; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard.
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PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER VISIT TO MSFC FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE CENTER.
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Command Command Tactical Air Forces (C-CTL), General Major Elkerbout, visits the 3rd group of led weapons (3 GGW). In the photo he can be seen when leaving a command post container on the 328 Squadron. Left of him the squadron commander, the Captain Bruinsma. On the right is a helicopter flyer, possibly captain dust.
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JOHN GARFIELD and GEORGE TOBIAS in AIR FORCE (1943), directed by HOWARD HAWKS.
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Former President Eisenhower with Walter Cronkite above Normandy's beaches. They were making a documentary, 'D-Day Plus 20 Years.' 1964.
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Instructor explaining the operation of the parachute to students, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. January 1942.
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US Navy Landing craft are loaded in England just before the D Day Normandy invasion 1944
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC (surgery crow) departure airport Semarang, arrival at Djokja airport. Soldiers jump out of the cargo space of an aircraft that has just landed. December 19, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Yogyakarta
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The country doctor Gaine Cannon is getting out of his Scout to treat a patient in the cabin behind the vehicle. Dr. Cannon practiced medicine in the isolated, high mountains west of Asheville, NC. He traveled some of the same dirt roads that his father, a doctor before him, traveled on horseback with his medical supplies in saddlebags. 1963.
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