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Title: Pilot tries a parka
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
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: Photograph caption dated March 26, 1955 reads "H. M. MacLeod, Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader, lets Lockheed employe (sic) Grace Boeckman adjust furry parka he will wear for Atlantic patrol flights in new Lockheed P2V Neptunes. RCAF pilots and airmen have been training at Burbank factory in preparation for delivery of Neptunes to RCAF."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00142448
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d050_f30_i23
CARL0005743132
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/70835
Subject: Canada.--Royal Canadian Air Force
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation--Employees
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Air pilots--Canada
Neptune (Military aircraft)
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Parkas--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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