Before The Jets, The Ancient Warriers

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Cold War Era Story
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Strategic Air Command B-36 Bomber
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The B-36 "Peacemaker" never dropped a bomb "in anger" yet kept the peace during "The Cold War".
RB-29 "Ferret" aircraft
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The RB-29 flew survailance missions on N Korea & Russian coastlines

Operation Hardtack, Eniwetok -- 1958
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My RB-50 aircrew photographed H-Bomb tests

Aerial Photo School
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18 years old, ready for anything

1371st Mapping and Charting Squadron
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"WE MAP THE WORLD"

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B-29 Bombers at sunset
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1942 Boing Aircraft Magazine cover
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1370th Photo Mapping Group, Palm Beach AFB
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"WE MAP THE WORLD"

RB-29 flying over Japan & Mt Fuji
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RB-29 crews flew photographic and electronic reconnaisance missions over North Korea and along Russian coastline in Sea of Japan. The Russian sub pens and radar deployed around Vladivolstok were prime targets.

B-36 coming in with 6 turning and four burning.
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Operation Hardtack, Eniwetok Atoll Atomic Tests
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RB-50 aircrew lived here Mar-June 1958

Operation Hardtack
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Umbrella shot June 9th, 1958

6091st Strategic Recon Sq
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Yokota Air Base, Japan 1955

RB-25 Combat Recon Aircraft
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Low level night photo missions a primary task !

The Boneyard
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B-36's being cut up for scrap metal

RB-36 Photo compartment
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Right Oblique Photographer's station

RB-36 Camera compartment
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Photographer's desk controls 11 cameras

APCS C-47 supply aircraft, 1371st Map & Chart Sq.
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New Guinea-1963

Hiran net electronic Photo mapping
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Bermuda, West Indies, & Caribbean Islands

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My aircraft # 729, Rapid City 1954
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717th Strategic Recon Squadron

RB-29, Night recon mission 1955
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Sea lane surveilance missions near Korea

RB-29 Recon Bomber
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RB-50 landing at Eniwetok, summer 1958
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We photographed Wahoo & Umbrella, Operation Hardtack

28th Strategic Recon Wing
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RB-36 Reconnaissance Bombers

RB-50 Photo Mapping aircraft from Palm Beach AFB
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RB-50 aircrews flew photo mapping missions in Spain, Germany, N Africa, Phillipeen Islands, Pananm, Costa Rico, Brazil, and the Bahama Is. during 1957-58 & 59. They also perfomed domestic work for the Army Coast and Geodetic Survey Corp. This was accomplished using Hiran Trilateration Photo Techniques.

RB-50 Photo Mapping aircraft
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Palm Beach AFB -- 1958

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Magazine cover June 1942

L-14 Observer Aircraft, Civil Air Patrol
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Summer 1949, my first time in the air

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