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Description
7 images. Flying Master Sergeants (Marines), 30 April 1954. Master Sergeant Wallace Cavette -- 31 years Master Sergeant Charles K. Holton -- 30 years 2nd Lieutenant R.A. Lowe -- 22 years Captain Robert Lewis -- 31 years Master Sergeant Andrew T. Taylor -- 32 years Master Sergeant John R. Stone -- 37 years 1st Lieutenant Henry J. Schaeffer. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Paegel. Date: 1954-04-30. Assignment: Flying master sergeants (marines). 1/2: L. to R. - M/Sgt. Charles K. Holton, 30, 2nd Lt. R.A. Lowe, 22, & Capt. Robert Lewis, 31, L.A. motorcycle officer on military leave -- at AD-5 Skyraider -- Holton, a flying sergeant, is also instructor in electronics at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. 21/22: L. to R. - M/Sgt. Wallace "Tex" Cavett, 31, & M/Sgt. Andrew T. Taylor, 32, both pilots, in Lockhead T-33 Jet Trainer -- at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. 47: "Flying Peons", a shoulder patch used by marine flying sergeants during Korean War -- patch is worn on jacket of M/Sgt. Wallace "Tex" Cavett, 31. 39/48: L. to R. - M/Sgt. John R. Stone, 37, & his pupil, 1st Lt. Henry J. Schaeffer -- Stone gives instruction to Schaffer in cockpit of marine RSD (DC-4) cockpit at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. Monday".
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image
Format
7 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. photographs negatives (photographic)
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