Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. RETURN OF DOWNED T-39 CREW

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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. RETURN OF DOWNED T-39 CREW

1964

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68980

Summary: Covers flight line ceremonies honoring deceased crew members of T-39A shot down over East Germany (28 January 1964), Lt Col Gerald K. Hannaford, Capt John F. Lorraine, Jr. and Capt Donald G. Millard. (Shot list to follow.) Reel 1, 989': 1) Andrews AFB Base Operations Building. 2) Honor guard in formation. 3) C-135A taxiing to parking position and parked. 4) Flag-draped caskets being carried from C-135A to hearses. 5) Families of deceased crew members leaving C-135A and meeting Eugene M. Zuckert, Secy of AF; Gen Curtis E. LeMay, CofS USAF; and Brig Gen Clair L. Wood, Comdr 1001 AB Wing. 6) Hearses leaving flight line, followed by casket bearers. Reel 2, 193': 1) Andrews AFB Base Operations Building. 2) MCU's guidon flag of USAF honor guard and guidon bearer. 3) C-135A taxiing to parking position and parked. 4) Flag-draped caskets being carried from aircraft to hearses. 5) Secy Zuckert, Gen LeMay, Brig Gen Wood and party assembling on flight line. Poor-Good (Basic: Orig neg)

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LeMay, Curtis E. (Curtis Emerson), 1906-1990

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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was an American Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. He later served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1965. LeMay joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, the precursor to the U.S. Air Force, in 1929 while studying civil engineering at Ohio State University. He had risen to the rank of major by the time of Japan's Attack on Pearl ...

Zuckert, Eugene M., 1911-2000

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Wood, Clair L., 1908-1987

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Clair L. Wood was born in El Reno, Okla., in 1908. His early years were spent in Seward and Meade counties of southwestern Kansas. He completed high school at Meade, Kan., in 1927 and entered the University of Kansas at Lawrence where he received the degree of bachelor of science in civil engineering in 1932. While at the university, he was a member of Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity and was elected to Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau, the national engineering honor fraternities. The y...