MAKE A MEME View Large Image Air Force F-80 Shooting Star - NARA - 542241.tif Scope and content This dramatic photo of a U S Air Force F-80 Shooting Star fighter-bomber has captured the action which occurred May 8 when day-long flights of Fifth Air Force warplanes ...
View Original:U.S._Air_Force_F-80_Shooting_Star_-_NARA_-_542241.tif (2441x3000)
Download: Original    Medium    Small Thumb
Courtesy of:commons.wikimedia.org More Like This
Keywords: U.S. Air Force F-80 Shooting Star - NARA - 542241.tif Scope and content This dramatic photo of a U S Air Force F-80 Shooting Star fighter-bomber has captured the action which occurred May 8 when day-long flights of Fifth Air Force warplanes blasted the Communist two-square mile supply center at Suan in the largest single air strike of the Korean conflict The storage area 35 miles southeast of Pyongyang was smothered with more than 12 000 gallons of napalm dropped by the attacking planes In this photo a tank of napalm can be seen just after being released It is below the left wing of the jet Target for the napalm is a supply building below plane and court-yard filled with loaded supply vehicles Low-level attacks such as these notice relationship of F-80 to smoke stack at right makes for accuracy It also makes it easier for enemy ground fire Anti-aircraft fire leaving a faint smoke trail can be seen flying upward from a Communist sandbagged gun position on the small ridge in the turn of the road F-86 Sabre jets flying protective cover for the devastatin General notes 542241 Local identifier 342-AF-81504AC Department of Defense Department of the Air Force 09/26/1947 - Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1952-05-08 Record group Record Group 342 Records of U S Air Force Commands Activities and Organizations 1900 - 2003 Record group ARC 654 Black and White Photographs of U S Air Force and Predecessors' Activities Facilities and Personnel Domestic and Foreign compiled 1930 - 1975 documenting the period 1863 - 1975 Series ARC 542185 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers Agency-Assigned Identifier NASM 4A 39111<br /> NAIL Control Number NWDNS-342-AF-81504AC yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Bombing during the Korean War F-80 Shooting Stars in the Korean War Napalm tanks
Terms of Use   Search of the Day