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Mitchel Field, New York. Air Corps technicians must be expert in the handling of infantry weapons. Members of an airbase squadron learning to wage hand-to-hand combat with bayonets under the tutelage of Captain Clifford W. Vedder, squadron commander

Mitchel Field, New York. On the rifle range members of the airbase squadron learn to fire the snubnose Thompson sub-machine gun. The highest degree of proficiency in the use of these firearms is attained in the intensive training program

Mitchel Field, New York. On the rifle range members of the airbase squadron learn to fire the snubnose Thompson sub-machine gun. The highest degree of proficiency in the use of these firearms is attained in the intensive training program

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of one of our new bombers. He, his gun and his plane are typical of the personnel and equipment that have gained world respect for the American Air Force

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of one of our new bombers. He, his gun and his plane are typical of the personnel and equipment that have gained world respect for the American Air Force

Weapons specialists, MASTER Sergeant Kenney Stevenson, Technical Sergeant Sean O'hara, and STAFF Sergeant Jeremy Pow, all members of the 169th Fighter Wing (FW) of the South Carolina Air National Guard, McEntire Air National Guard Station, load AGM-65 Maverick missiles. The 169th FW is deployed to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, to participate in Combat Hammer. It's flying squadron, the 157th Fighter Squadron (FS), is one of several units operating in this 'live-fire' weapons testing mission. The 157th FS will fire AGM-88 Highspeed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) and AGM-65G Maverick missiles to test their pilots abilities, their unit tactics, and the effectiveness of missile systems

Mitchel Field, New York. Positions with the Thompson machine gun are practiced by members of the air base squadron. This lesson is known as "dry firing." The men get the feel of the gun before they go on the firing line to use real ammunition

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Michael Higgins, a Phase Dock mechanic for the Virginia Air National Guard (ANG), assigned to the 192nd Fighter Wing (FW), prepares a maintenance crew for a routine landing gear check on an F-16C Fighting Falcon fighter

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of one of our new bombers. He, his gun and his plane are typical of the personnel and equipment that have gained world respect for the American Air Force

Mitchel Field, New York. Air Corps technicians must be expert in the handling of infantry weapons. Members of an airbase squadron learning to wage hand-to-hand combat with bayonets under the tutelage of Captain Clifford W. Vedder, squadron commander

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Long Island Lighting Co. Cable being set up

Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieutenant of the late Huey Long, is snapped by news cameramen as he rests in his office after leading the victorious fight for the compromise in the wage-hour bill. The compromise is expected to make wage differentials possible for many southern industries. He has threatened a filibuster unless the south got what it wanted in the measure, 6/13/38

AFRTS COVERS KOREA. The Armed Forces Radio and Television System (AFRTS) is depicted in this color illustration. Clockwise from the noon position; an open air Korean market, a street interview, uniformed news and camera technicians in a broadcast studio, a uniformed Videographer, troops in the field watching television and a typical Korean countryside scene of burial mounds

Mitchell Field. The eagle puts foot to earth. An air-crew officer dressed in full combat gear inspects a bomber landing wheel. Part of the retracting mechanism is shown

Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment,

U.S. Marines assigned to 5th Battalion, 11th Marine

The US Navy Dive Team on board the Navy salvage and rescue ship USS GRASP (ARS 51) get dressed in their gear as they prepare for another dive during search and recovery operations at the TWA Flight 800 crash site. TWA flight 800 crahed in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York, on July 17, 1996

[Lobby to Main Reading Room. Peace and Prosperity mural by Elihu Vedder. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

A demolitions expert looks over the debris from a recently destroyed Titan II missile silo. The silo is one of the eight missile complexes being dismantled in accordance with the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II)

Five paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade earned

Coast Guard crewmembers work alongside New York State

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted musket]

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