Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Friday, March 16, 2007

A Modern Classic


SAN DIEGO (March 13, 2007) - Electronics Technician 3rd Class Rick Pfeifer embraces his three-month old daughter for the first time at the homecoming ceremony for guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 73). Bunker Hill returned from a six-month deployment as part of Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Women in white


"Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields


Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields... on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

Friday, March 9, 2007

Floodlight service


Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah. Circa 1942.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

View of journalist Joseph Crocé-Spinelli


View of journalist Joseph Crocé-Spinelli, naval officer Henri Sivel, and Gaston Tissandier in the basket of the balloon, "Zénith," after losing consciousness due to lack of oxygen after reaching an altitude of nearly 28,000 ft., near Paris, France, April, 1875

Monday, March 5, 2007

Flying F/A-18C Hornets


PACIFIC OCEAN (March 1, 2007) – Flying F/A-18C Hornets above USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), Capt. Craig Williams, foreground, and Capt. Richard Butler look up for a photo during their airborne change of command ceremony. Butler, a University of Kentucky graduate with more than 21 years of experience as a naval aviator, relieved Williams as the commander of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 14 during an aerial change of command ceremony in the skies above Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is currently underway in support of operations in the western Pacific.

Sunday, March 4, 2007