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Title: Field overcrowded with new planes
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: This photo of the Municipal Airport, the first to be taken under special permission of the War Department illustrates the necessity of completing the airport project for national defense. The field is overcrowded with new planes. Most of these are United States Navy trainers ready for final tests. At extreme right are two trainers for the British awaiting delivery to Canada. An average of 30 test hops is made daily at the uncompleted airport.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00033830
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2112.
CARL0000035928
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11243
Subject: Los Angeles Airport
Airplanes, Military
Training planes
Airports--California--Los Angeles
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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