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[Official air force photographs of Ira Eaker and his contemporaries: 5 pilots posed by plane] – Vintage Wall Art

[Official air force photographs of Ira Eaker and his contemporaries: 5 pilots posed by plane], [between 1917 and 1947] — historic photograph
[Official air force photographs of Ira Eaker and his contemporaries: 5 pilots posed by plane], [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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Five pilots stand together beside an aircraft in this print from the Ira Clarence Eaker Collection, official Air Force photographs of Eaker and the men who served alongside him. Eaker rose through the Army's air arm between the wars and later commanded the Eighth Air Force in England, directing American bombing raids over Germany early in the Second World War. Group portraits like this were a common way for the young service to document its people and machines, though the record does not identify the pilots or the aircraft.

Created / published[between 1917 and 1947]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesIra Clarenc 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 × 1,214 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157426

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