Goose Bay, Labrador, prior to take off – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Goose Bay, Labrador, prior to take off. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Goose Bay, Labrador, prior to take off
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A fighter aircraft waits on the apron at Goose Bay, Labrador, just before departure, a scene that captures the base's working routine. The airfield was built in 1941 by the United States, with Canadian and British agreement, as a staging point on the northern air route used to ferry aircraft to Europe during the Second World War. After the war it remained a busy American installation in the Cold War years, and the photograph's notes date it to about 1948, when such bases were central to the work of the postwar Air Force. Aircraft leaving from this remote coastal post were a common sight of that era.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [1948?] |
| Subjects | Air bases--American--Newfoundland and Labrador--1940-1950. Fighter planes--American--Newfoundland and Labrador--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,265 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209385 |
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