Soon at work
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Photograph
Soon at work
ca. 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 19.3 x 24.1 cm (7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Paper: 20.7 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0018.1042
Inscriptions recto (in image): +77556A.C.
verso (stamped in blue ink): 77556 A.C. -SOON AT WORK. / A few minutes before this picture was / made, this six-by-six truck was unloaded from / a United States Air Force C-119 at Kimpo Airfield / in Korea. Now it is being used to unload this / United States Air Force C-54, which landed shortly / thereafter. Most of the first cargo airplanes / that landed at this important airfield, carried / trucks, fork-lifts, and personnell to handle the / volume of traffic that is flowing into this base. / The supplies are vital in the support of United / Nations troops fighting in the area near Seoul. / REALEASED FROM WASHINGTON, D.D., SEPTEMBER 27, 1950. / PLEASE CREDIT: "OFFICIAL dEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PHOTO."
verso (stamped in blue ink): 77556 A.C. -SOON AT WORK. / A few minutes before this picture was / made, this six-by-six truck was unloaded from / a United States Air Force C-119 at Kimpo Airfield / in Korea. Now it is being used to unload this / United States Air Force C-54, which landed shortly / thereafter. Most of the first cargo airplanes / that landed at this important airfield, carried / trucks, fork-lifts, and personnell to handle the / volume of traffic that is flowing into this base. / The supplies are vital in the support of United / Nations troops fighting in the area near Seoul. / REALEASED FROM WASHINGTON, D.D., SEPTEMBER 27, 1950. / PLEASE CREDIT: "OFFICIAL dEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PHOTO."
