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Date
1942
Creation Date
2008-06-13
Description
Black & White photograph of the United States Eighth Army Air Force, 93rd Bomb Group, service personnel getting ready to depart Barksdale Field outside of Shreveport, Louisiana, to Fort Myers, Florida, on May 14, 1942. The typewritten article below the image describes the conditions at Fort Myers while the 93rd is stationed there and receiving a citation for sinking a German submarine, claimed by Lt. John L. Jerkstad [Jerstad]. The 93rd departed for Alconbury, England on August 13, 1942.
Digital Collection
Arnold Clayton Watkins World War II Photograph Collection, 1942-1945
Collection Number
SpC MS 0006
Finding Aid
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/3/
Object Type
Photograph
Image Format
Still Image
Location
United States--Louisiana--Caddo--Shreveport
Publisher Digital
Pittsburg State University, Kansas, Axe Library, Special Collections
Rights
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Keywords
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American--Photographs; United States. Army Air Forces--History--Photographs; Military bases, American--Photographs; Soldiers--United States--Photographs
Notes
Pittsburg State University, Special Collections, 6, Watkins, Arnold Clayton, Envelope 7, 03. Contributed by Joan F. Watkins.