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Collection Structure Overseas Weekly photographs >  Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 16351
Item Title Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 16351
Collection Title Overseas Weekly photographs
Photographer Hirst, Don
Publisher Overseas Weekly
Date Created May 28, 1970
Description Contact sheet containing 24 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - plane crash (Cunningham) - S. Sgt. Marvin R. Norton - Sgt. David Steffen - Pfc. Mark Lindholm - burning plane. NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: Overseas pazifik - Caption sheet for unsouped roll of tri-x - May 28, 70 - Hirst - It contains, in the following order: Several shots of a burning plane being hosed down by firemen. Slug it: "Brig Gen Hubert S. Cunningham narrowly escaped death when the U21 he and his staff were riding in crashed and burned at LZ English. No one was injured in the crash, caused by a collapsed landing gear, and the popular honche is gung-ho … Brig rode away from his narow brush with the grim reaper, he was heard to say, "Airborne!" Next several pix of S Sgt Norton, quote in story about mysterious Caucasian and subject of story on recon. Norton is in fatigues with camoflaged face, etc. Next are several pix of (left-right) Sgt David Steffen, Pfc Mark Lindholm, both quotes in mysterious Caucasian story. Last two or three shots are the same with Norton in the middle.
Subject(s) Courts-martial and courts of inquiry Battlefields Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Language(s) English
Format Still Image
Medium contact sheets
Record Number 2014c35.852
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