Cold War U.S. Air Force Transport Operations MATS 62nd Troop Carrier Wing Photo Album 1959 to 1963

Date de parution : 1959

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U.S. Air Force photo album, 1959 to 1963, documents Military Air Transport Service operations and everyday service life within the 62nd Troop Carrier Wing during the early Cold War, providing visual evidence of strategic airlift infrastructure, aviation technology, and personnel culture. The material captures the role of transport units responsible for global logistical support, illustrating how troop movement, supply distribution, and training exercises were sustained through coordinated air operations. It further supports research into mid-20th-century military mobility and the lived experience of enlisted personnel within a non-combat but operationally essential branch of U.S. military activity. Album containing 168 black and white silver gelatin photographs, primarily measuring approximately 3.25 x 4.5 inches, with several images dated May 1959 and five color photographs dated January 1960, along with six larger loose prints including four captioned press photographs documenting the Coulee Crest military exercise conducted from Larson Air Force Base. The contents emphasize aircraft and airfield environments, including troop transport planes such as the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II and fighter aircraft including the F-100C Super Sabre, alongside earlier bomber models still in circulation. The album cover features graphics associated with Tactical Air Command and the 62nd Troop Carrier Wing, with a stamped image of a jet aircraft against a dark blue ground. In addition to aviation imagery, the compiler included photographs of personal interest, notably automobiles and a hot rod show, as well as images taken in the Midwestern United States, including western Ohio and nearby Indiana. The latter portion of the album documents travel through the American Southwest, with identifiable locations including areas near Austin, Texas, and Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. Produced during a period when Military Air Transport Service units supported ongoing Cold War logistics following earlier involvement in Korea and Indochina, the album reflects the continued centrality of airlift capacity in U.S. military planning prior to large-scale escalation in Vietnam. The combination of official aircraft imagery, press photographs, and informal personal scenes situates the compiler within both institutional operations and broader postwar American culture, including car enthusiasm and interstate mobility. Such material contributes to the study of Cold War military infrastructure, aviation history, and the social life of service members stationed within the continental United States. Light wear to album edges and corners, photographs well-preserved with minor handling marks, loose prints intact; overall very good. A detailed visual record of U.S. Air Force transport operations and service culture at the outset of the 1960s.…

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Titre
Cold War U.S. Air Force Transport Operations MATS 62nd Troop Carrier Wing Photo Album 1959 to 1963
Auteur
Cold War Air Force in Texas
Année de publication
1959
Catalogues du vendeur
American History by State, Military & War, Space & Aviation

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