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FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN--Combat infantrymen must know how to do a flat crawl   (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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FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN--Combat infantrymen must know how to do a flat crawl
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  • Scope and content: "FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN--Combat infantrymen must know how to do a flat crawl, hugging the ground to avoid being hit. Combat airmen must also know how to maneuver horizontally, only they often do it high in the night skies over North Korea. This U.S. Air force B-29 gunner coming through the 35-foot tunnel connecting forward and rear pressurized compartments on his "Superfort" is A/2C James J. Prater, Beaver Creek Drive, Powell, Tenn. Wearing parachute and "Mae West: life preserver adds to the close sqeeze in negotiating the tunnel which runs through the big aircraft's twin bomb bays. Airman Prater flies nine-hour, 2,000 mile roundtrip missions from his 98th Bomb Wing base in Japan, to attack key Communist targets in North Korea. Airman Prater joined the U.S. Air Force in November, 1951. After training in gunnery at five airbases, he was assigned recently to Japan for combat duty, where his missions are part of the Far East Air Forces' continuing program of blasting Red supplies before they reach "
Date circa March 1953
date QS:P571,+1953-03-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q38945047
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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) 542362.

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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 and Color Photographs of U.S. Air Force and Predecessor Agencies Activities, Facilities and Personnel - World War II and Korean War, ca. 1940 - ca. 1980 (National Archives Identifier: 542351)
  • Agency-Assigned Identifier: NASM 4A 31920

NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-342-FH-4A(31920)

  • 342-FH-4A(31920)
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