Keesler Field (Keesler Air Force Base)

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This black and white photograph features a group of airplanes on the field. The smaller plane in the foreground features "782" stenciled on the front end of the plane, a star in a circle on the back end, and the numbers "348279" are on the fin/vertical stabilizer. The larger plane behind the plane in the forefront has "IM00 on the side of the front end near the cockpit. Other planes can be seen in the distance and the wing of a plane can be seen above the two planes in the center.

Transcription

In front of operations

Publication Date

1944

Time Period

1940-1949

Subjects

United States. Air Force--Planes

Geographic Location

Biloxi, MS

Object Type

image

Format (original)

photograph: b&w

Format (digital)

PDF

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Manuscripts Division, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Keesler Field Subcollection

Repository

Manuscripts

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Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Airplanes In Front of Operations on the Field at Keesler Field

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