U.S.S. Antietam May 3-4, 1962 [Meeting with Admiral Kirn, View 1] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1962.

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U.S.S. Antietam May 3-4, 1962 [Meeting with Admiral Kirn, View 1] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1962.

Negative taken for May 15, 1962, Arkansas Gazette article "Antietam Visitors Told of Naval Research," B1:3. Ernie Deane and twenty others from Arkansas were the guests of the United States Navy aboard the U.S.S. Antietam. The group was flown in a Navy passenger plane from Arkansas to the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas. They were then flown to the Antietam aboard Navy helicopters. The aircraft carrier was built near the end of World War II and saw significant action in the Korean War. It is now used to train pilots for carrier landings, using both propeller and jet airplanes. While on board the Antietam, Deane and his companions met with Rear Admiral Lewis J. Kirn, the navy's chief of advanced air training. Admiral Kirn, who served in the Pacific during World War II, briefed the visitors on the role of technology in the nation's defense in the future.

Negative : b&w ; 3 x 4 cm. (1 x 1 in.)

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