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[Official air force photographs of Ira Eaker and his contemporaries: 2 men posed by airplane] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Official air force photographs of Ira Eaker and his contemporaries: 2 men posed by airplane], [between 1917 and 1947] — historic photograph
[Official air force photographs of Ira Eaker and his contemporaries: 2 men posed by airplane], [between 1917 and 1947]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Two men stand beside an airplane in this print, but the caption card does not name them, so their roles remain open. The picture belongs to the papers of Ira Clarence Eaker, who learned to fly in the Army during World War I and later commanded the Eighth Air Force's bombers over Europe in 1942 and 1943. Official photographs of officers posed with aircraft were common in military files of the period, and they document the people who built American military aviation. Because the date range spans three decades, the print could come from almost any stage of that career.

Created / published[between 1917 and 1947]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesIra Clarence Eaker Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Air Force, U.S.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,235 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157427

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