Skip to main content

Waiting for the plane. T-3 (Fletcher's) Ice Island, Arctic Ocean. 1969.

Dates

Date Taken
1969-06

Summary

Typed information accompanying negative: Waiting for the plane. The weather was cool but not cold, juding from the clothing. Personal email from Dave Scoboria on November 29, 2019, The man to the right side (tall) in photo F6 is Bob Ferguson. Bon worked on T-3 numerous times. Similar to F-4 and F-5 (see links in Related Items below) Note: T-3 Photographs - Roll F B&W negatives - June paradrop, 1969. There were three paradrops during the summer of 1969 performed by Navy C-130 planes from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska. These are described in this website, http://www.firebirds.org/menu2/t3/t3_p02.htm On the receiving end of the paradrops on T-3, these days were the high points of the summer season. This roll documents [...]

Contacts

Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Scoboria, Dave

Attached Files

Click on title to download individual files attached to this item.

sd_f6_neg.jpg thumbnail 81.02 KB image/jpeg
sd_f6_neg.tif 1.13 MB image/geotiff

Material Request Instructions

Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Digital Collection, 2019 DENPH0008.

Rights

This USGS product is considered to be in the U.S. public domain. For further information on the USGS Information Policies and Instructions, refer to the Copyrights and Credits section on this web page: http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html

Additional Information

Identifiers

Type Scheme Key
Photo Number https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier sd_f6_neg

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...