Sujet

Recycling Navy Surplus Aircraft

Légende

Quinton, Oklahoma, May 25, 1946 This is an air view of a small fraction of the thousands of surplus Navy aircraft lined up at the Naval Air Station in Clinton, Okla., whose parts are now being fed back into commercial channels to become window frames, linoleum stripping, ornamental fixtures and alloys for the steel or chemical industries through a program for the disposal of surplus aircraft aluminum scrap instituted by the navy department.

Date

25 mai 1946

Crédit

Photo12/UIG/Underwood Archives

Notre référence

UMG24A04_029

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

68,4Mo (2,3Mo) / 45,7cm x 37,5cm / 5400 x 4429 (300dpi)

Mots clés

1940's 1940s 1946 Air Force Air Force Base Archival Bomber Plane Large Group Of Objects North America Oklahoma Quinton Second World War U.S. Navy US Navy USA United States United States Navy Us Military WW 2 WW II WWII World War 2 World War II World War Two abundance aerial view air vehicle aircraft airplane aviation black and white day fighter plane horizontal in a row military military base naval air station no people outdoors pattern photography recycle recycling stationary surplus transportation war surplus