Display Status:

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Collection Item Summary:

Left side view of an Overseas National Airways Douglas DC-6 on the tarmac at Wake Island, en route for Japan during the Korean War, 1950. Written on album page, "Wake Island". Caption on reverse of photo, "Our plane at Wake". Album page 5.

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Korean War, 1950-1953
  • Air bases, American
  • Aeronautics
  • Airlines
  • Airplanes

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

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photographer

Ward Hitt, Jr

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Date

1950

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-9A09976-07B