Destroying planes [Lockheed P-38 Lightnings], Clark Field.
Destroying planes [Lockheed P-38 Lightnings], Clark Field.
Creator
[Anonymous]
Date created
circa 1945-1949
Accession No.
OFI-000267
Format
Photograph, black & white.
Citation
Post-war U.S. soldier's aluminum album.
Location
OFI-000097 to OFI-000281\OFI-000267.jpg
Notes
How do you dispose of damaged or obsolete fighter planes? Today they would be carefully recycled for their aluminum and other valuable metals, but in the post-war era the answer was to burn all.
Type
Photograph, B/W, white border, glossy.
Medium
1 photographic print : sheet 10 x 12 cm.
Subject 1
Lightning (Fighter plane).
Subject 2
Surplus military property, American -- Philippines.
Subject 3
Clark Air Base (Philippines).
Actual Image Location
OFI photographs, Box 11.
Call number
OFI-000267