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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated June 23, 1961 reads "Another surprise package." The article partially reads "A North Hollywood man came home from the Pacific Thursday happy he was one of three Air Force 'pararescuemen' first to successfully yank a space capsule from the sea. The 'package' they rescued from the Pacific Ocean Sunday was the nose cone of Discoverer XXV."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
United States.--Air Force Parachute troops Men--California--Los Angeles Cigarettes--California--Los Angeles Smoking--California--Los Angeles Draperies--California--Los Angeles Blinds North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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