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:

Close up informal portrait of Lt Ward Hitt, Jr. in winter clothing, smoking a cigarette. Hitt stands next to a jeep. Taken during Hitt's detached duty as a Forward Aircraft Controller with the 5th Republic of Korea (ROK) Corps, Feb. 3-26, 1951. Written on album page - "Out of the Fight For a while". Album page 19.

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Korean War, 1950-1953
  • Aeronautics
  • Air pilots

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

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photographer

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Date

February 1951

Place

Korea

Repository Loc.

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

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-9A09976-21A

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