Rocket-firing jet attacks ammunition trucks
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Rocket-firing jet attacks ammunition trucks

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Rocket-firing jet attacks ammunition trucks

July 12, 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21 x 16.6 cm (8 1/4 x 6 9/16 in.)
Paper: 22.9 x 18.2 cm (9 x 7 3/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
Inscriptions [paper attached to print] recto (ink): Korean War / (pencil): [circled] War / (typed): 10526 D / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / ROCKET-FIRING JET ATTACKS AMMUNITION TRUCKS / A UNITED STATES F-80 JET FIGHTER RELEASES ITS / TWO 5-INCH ROCKETS IN AN ATTACK ON NORTH KOREAN / AMMUNITION TRUCKS ALONG A KOREAN ROAD IN THIS / PICTURE TAKEN BY PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN / OF LIFE MAGAZINE. WHITE SPOTS AND SMOKE BELOW / PLANE SHOW TRAIL LEFT BY ROCKETS AS THEY STREAK / TOWARD THEIR TARGET FAR BELOW. DUNCAN MADE THIS / PICTURE FROM THE FRONT SEAT OF A T-33, A PLANE / DESIGNED FOR TRAINING JET PILOTS, WHICH ACCOM-PANIED THE JET MISSION. / JS 7/12/50 5PEDT LIFE 40 / ABC LIST NYWS BING / (TMC WW ALL MAGS OUT) / (FOR USE IN CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES ONLY)

verso (stamped): [underlined] NOTICE / [illegible] / ASSOCIATED PRESS / NEWSPHOTO
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