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Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Alfred T. Palmer  (1906–1993)  wikidata:Q2895582
 
Alfred T. Palmer
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 17 March 1906 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1993 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Jose Larkspur
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q2895582
Title
Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
Description
English: U.S. Army Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, a test pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, stands in front of a Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone engine of a Douglas A-20 Havoc twin-engine bomber at the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942.
Date October 1942
date QS:P571,+1942-10-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium 1 transparency : color.
Accession number
  • Call Number: LC-USW36-132 <P&P>※
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsac-1a35358 (digital file from original transparency)
  • LC-USW361-132 (color film copy slide)
  • CARD #: fsa1992001602/PP
Notes
  • B&w photograph in Lot 12002-39.
  • Transfer; FSA-OWI; 1944.
Source
 
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID fsac.1a35358.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Licensing

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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Test pilot stands in front of a Douglas A-20 Havoc

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Douglas A-20 Havoc

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current09:52, 27 March 2007Thumbnail for version as of 09:52, 27 March 20072,400 × 3,100 (1.33 MB)TrialsanderrorsMinor cleanup
09:17, 12 February 2007Thumbnail for version as of 09:17, 12 February 20072,400 × 3,100 (4.41 MB)TrialsanderrorsSelective sharpening
06:13, 9 February 2007Thumbnail for version as of 06:13, 9 February 20072,400 × 3,100 (4.39 MB)TrialsanderrorsMore cleanup
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21:59, 13 November 2006Thumbnail for version as of 21:59, 13 November 2006712 × 915 (113 KB)TrialsanderrorsCrop for equal size with Image:Lt_Mike_Hunter_2.jpg
18:53, 13 November 2006Thumbnail for version as of 18:53, 13 November 2006716 × 921 (117 KB)Trialsanderrors{{PD-LOC}} TITLE: Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. CALL NUMBER: LC-USW36-132 <P&P>※ REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-fsac-1a35358 (digital file from original transparency) LC-USW361-132 (col

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Image titleLieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
Credit/ProviderPalmer, Alfred T., photographer
SourceU.S. Library of Congress
Copyright holderPublic Domain, work of the United States Government (Office for War Information) 1942
JPEG file commentFile written by Adobe Photoshop¨ 5.0
IIM version2
WriterUS Library of Congress
KeywordsFSA-OWI
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