Mechanics working on a military plane

Four mechanics repairing a bomber which looms behind them. A large tool chest with a US star on its side is in the middle of the image. Four mechanics repairing a bomber which looms behind them. A large tool chest with a US star on its side is in the middle of the image. After training at Pendleton Field, Oregon, in aerial and ground photography, Baldwin served with the 20th U.S. Air Force as public relations photographer and artist. Stationed on Iwo Jima, he later covered the surrender of Japanese forces in Tokyo Bay, August, 1945. Gift of the artist, 1994.

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Original record: Mechanics working on a military plane
Collection: Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Date(s): 1941
1945
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Baldwin, Richard Wood, 1920-2012 (artist)
Subject(s): Pendleton Field, Oregon
Tokyo Bay
U.S. Air Force
Watercolors (Paintings)
World War, 1939-1945
Type: still image

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