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U.S. Air Force F-80 Shooting Star   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - )
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U.S. Air Force F-80 Shooting Star
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  • 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...."
Date 8 May 1952
date QS:P571,+1952-05-08T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q38945047
Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S)
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 542241.

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  • Record group: Record Group 342: Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations, 1900 - 2003 (National Archives Identifier: 654)
  • Series: 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 (National Archives Identifier: 542185)
  • Agency-Assigned Identifier: NASM 4A 39111

NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-342-AF-81504AC

  • 342-AF-81504AC
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